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CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - Annual Report 2021
Type: Report
This 2021 annual report describes the key achievements of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH). During 2021, FISH focused on several key areas to achieve a successful and impactful closure of ...
Fisheries co-management in hilsa shad sanctuaries of Bangladesh: Early experiences and implementation challenges
Type: Journal Article
National fish hilsa was declining in Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh took several measures like the establishment of sanctuaries, bans on catching of brood hilsa and its offspring jatka, and reduced the illegal ...
Characteristics and performance of fisheries co-management in Asia; Synthesis of knowledge and case studies: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka
Type: Report
Collaboration between governments, NGOs, and resource custodians, users and beneficiaries is globally recognized as a foundation of fair and effective management of natural resource access and use. These collaborative forms ...
A socioeconomic and bioeconomic analysis of coastal fisheries of Bangladesh
Type: Book Chapter
Bangladesh has an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 164 000 km2 and a continental shelf area of 66 440 km2. Artisanal (small scale) fisheries extend from the coast to 40 m while industrial (commercial scale) fisheries operate ...
Reimagining large-scale open-water fisheries governance through adaptive comanagement in hilsa shad sanctuaries
Type: Journal Article
Almost a half million fishers in Bangladesh are predominantly reliant on the hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) fishery in the Meghna River and estuarine ecosystem. This paper adopts a broadened concept of social-ecological ...
Balancing carrots and sticks: incentives for sustainable hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh
Type: Report
Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in collaboration with the Bangladesh government’s Department of Fisheries in 2013–2016 for enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of ...
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 ...
Productivity and coastal fisheries biomass yields of the northeast coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem
Type: Journal Article
This paper describes the current marine fisheries situation in the northeast sector of the Bay of Bengal, ninety percent of which corresponds to Myanmar's EEZ and ten percent to Bangladesh. With the exception of the research ...
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems: A synthesis
Type: Brief
The fish agri-food system connects supplies of fish and other aquatic foods through multiple pathways and scales to diverse consumers across the planet and is a key component of the global agri-food systems. Fish and other ...
Option for formulating community based fish sanctuary and its management in beel ecosystem in Brahmanbaria.
Type: Journal Article
With the objective of formulating community based fish sanctuaries in beel ecosystem based on the experiences of traditional fish aggregating devices (FAD), like katha and kua, this study was undertaken in three beels viz., ...