Fisheries policy in Bangladesh is still trying to get to grips with
the major dilemmas of maximizing benefits from natural resources.
During the 20th century Bangladesh adopted one-sided
production-oriented policies in the agricultural sector to feed its
rapidly growing population. This strategy included increasing fish
production, then in decline mainly as a result of environmental
degradation brought about by the expansion of agriculture. The
solution was to develop aquaculture and later to promote
culture-based fisheries and large-scale stocking in the floodplains
and beels (lakes) that previously sustained capture fisheries.
Although fish production per se in many cases may have increased as
a result of this type of intervention, benefits have not been
socially and environmentally sustainable. This document reviews and
discusses the development of culture-based fisheries and
community-based fisheries management in Bangladesh with regard to
socio-economic impacts as well as environmental effects and
biodiversity loss.
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