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Increasing social and ecological resilience of coastal fisheries
Type: Brief
Small-scale coastal capture fisheries produce almost half the fish consumed in low- and middle- income countries and employ more people than all other ocean economic sectors combined, but their resilience is undermined by ...
Proceedings of the Small-scale Fisheries Symposium 2019
Type: Conference Proceedings
USAID’s ECOFISH activity of WorldFish organized a 2-day long Small-scale Fisheries (SSF) Symposium on June 19-20, 2019 at a local Hotel in Banani, Dhaka. The symposium aimed at sharing the knowledge on small-scale fisheries ...
Value chain impact of the increased hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) harvest in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Hilsa shad is the largest single fish species, contributing 12% of the total fish production in Bangladesh. Since the rapid decline of its harvest in early 2000, the government of Bangladesh took various initiatives to ...
Hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh
Type: Conference Paper
Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha), is a biologically, nutritionally, economically, socially and culturally important species in the Bay of Bengal and Persian Gulf regions, but Bangladesh enjoys the major share wherein it ...
Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities: Results from a quasi-experimental impact evaluation in coastal Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
At present, no clear consensus exists on how to assess resilience interventions in the field. In this paper we propose to measure the impact of the ECOFISH project, the objective of which was to strengthen the resilience ...
USAID Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh II (ECOFISH II) Quarterly Report April 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020
Type: Donor Report
USAID’s ECOFISH II enhances community resilience through improving the savings, livelihoods and coping strategies of host fishing communities in the USAID Zone of Resilience (ZOR) and marginalized and extremely poor fisher ...
Maintaining diversity of integrated rice and fish production confers adaptability of food systems to global change
Type: Journal Article
Rice and fish are preferred foods, critical for healthy and nutritious diets, and provide the foundations of local and national economies across Asia. Although transformations, or “revolutions,” in agriculture and aquaculture ...
USAID Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH II) Quarterly Report December 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020
Type: Donor Report
ECOFISH II has been supporting host-fishing communities in the USAID Zone of Resilience (ZOR), Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf areas, coastal fishing communities in the Meghna River Ecosystem (MRE) and the Nijhum Dwip MPA to improve ...
Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH-BD) : Poster-ECOFISH-Outputs
Type: Poster
ECOFISH-BD supports the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and local communities to establish collaborative management (“co-management”) and focuses on reducing overfishing, and improving community empowerment and livelihood ...
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Hilsa Fisheries: Experience in ECOFISH Activity
Type: Report
USAID funded ECOFISH Activity (2014-2019) aimed to improve the resilience of the Meghna (Padma-Meghna and tributaries) river systems and communities reliant on coastal fisheries. The activity, implemented jointly by WorldFish ...