Openwater Fisheries of Bangladesh
Contents: 1. Tropical floodplain fisheries/Ian Payne. 2. Riparian rights, the organisation of work and market relations among the Inland Fishers of Colonial Bengal, 1793 to 1950/Bob Pokrant, Peter Reeves and John McGuire. 3. Stock improvement and genetic resource conservation of floodplain fishes/M.G. Hussain. 4. Fish health management in Bangladesh floodplains/Rohana P. Subasinghe and M. Shahadat Hussain. 5. Fish biodiversity, human nutrition and environmental restoration in Bangladesh/Stephen F. Minkin, M. Moklesur Rahman and Mahmudur Rahman. 6. Socio-economic and policy issues in the floodplain fisheries of Bangladesh/Mahfuzuddin Ahmed. 7. Fish marketing in Bangladesh: status and issues/A.K. Ataur Rahman. 8. Marketing of fish from selected floodplains in Bangladesh/Nesar Ahmed. 9. Limnology of some floodplains of Bangladesh/S.K. Paul and M.A. Mazid. 10. Fishing gears of floodplain fisheries in Bangladesh: a case study of Chanda, BSKB and Halti Beels/Sarder Shafiqul Alam, M. Youssouf Ali and Chu-fa Tsai. 11. Ecology of floodplains in the Northeastern region of Bangladesh/M. Anisuzzaman Khan. 12. Openwater fisheries in the Northeast region of Bangladesh/Nirmal Chandra Paul. 13. Stock enhancement in the floodplain fisheries of Northeastern Bangladesh/Arun G. Jhingram. 14. Impacts of flood control and drainage with or without irrigation (FCD/I) project on fish resources and fishing community in Bangladesh: executive summary of flood action plan (FAP)- 17 final report, Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of United Kingdom.
"Open water fisheries are major aquatic common property resources in Bangladesh covering over four million hectares. Around ten percent of the population of 120 million depend for their livelihoods on fisheries. Fish is the main source of animal protein, particularly for the poor. The wetlands of Bangladesh are an interplay of social, environmental resource management and developmental concerns. There are conflicting demands on the wetlands. The demand for agricultural production, particularly cereals, encourages attempts to dry out the wetlands with a reduction in the open water areas and its fisheries resources. Bangladesh possesses a wide range of fishes, prawns and turtles inhabiting in its extensive inland open waters. The fish populations and stocks were under threat of depletion due to indiscriminate and uncontrolled harvesting. This situation has further been complicated by the physical loss, shrinkage and modification of aquatic habitats for fishes, prawns, turtles and other aquatic organisms.
"There is very little structured literature about this socially, economically, nutritionally and environmentally important living resource. Further, the limited existing literature is scattered in mostly inaccessible project reports. Thus an urgent need has been felt to pull together the best information in an accessible way. In fourteen chapters, this book addresses the issues of the ecosystem and resources, history, sociology, economics and marketing, fish biology and biodiversity, environment, technology and policy concerns." (jacket)
