Review of fisheries legal framework of Bangladesh: Towards policy implications

Abstract

This article scrutinized policy papers, acts, policy progressions, policy drift, and policy accomplishments with regards to marine stocks, capture fisheries, marine environment policy in Bangladesh in the context of an important coastal delta based country. This is done to review existing policies to devise strategies and action plan in light of fisheries ecosystem and suggestions for the realization of action plans for renewable resources including fish, shrimps and other aquatic resources and marine environment management. Analysis on existing policy documents; plans, ordinances, and relevant literature through reviewed to find out gaps, if there were any, and made policy recommendations to amend the existing policies or to formulate an entirely new policy guidelines. Problems among the existing policies are related to their outcome focused are not desired output basis. This review suggests that the policy on marine fisheries is not well specified thereby demands improvement in the policy content, and greater challenges may lie in implementing modified policy and in improving policy processes.