Constraints and Prospects of Sustainable Fisheries Management in Bangladesh

Abstract

Fisheries sector of Bangladesh plays an important role in food security, employment, foreign exchange earnings and different other facets of the economy. The findings of the present study show that the yield of the floodplain, ponds, seasonal water logging area, artisanal fisheries, estuaries, and rivers are varied; there are various limitations on expansion to their potentials. Several factors are identified as threats to the sustainability of the fisheries resources that includes over-exploitation, pollutants like agrochemicals, industrial wastes, lack of stock assessment to set MSY, underprivileged enactment of fisheries laws and regulations, the inadequate spread of fish farming technology, low financial capacities, and ineffectiveness extension practices.