by Mahatub Khan Badhon | Feb 8, 2018 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries
What are the options we have to transform booming export of wild-caught mud crabs from Sundarban into a sustainably managed fishery? We are exploring this challenge for quite some time now. In October 2016, I’ve got the opportunity to discuss this with Dr. Chamniern...
by Yugraj Singh Yadava | Mar 8, 2017 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries
In India, prior to 1998, a trawling ban was enforced only in the western State of Kerala. When I was the Fisheries Commissioner of India (1994 – 2000) we extended the ban (not only for trawling but for all mechanized boats) to all the nine coastal States and four...
by Mahatub Khan Badhon | Nov 6, 2016 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries
It was the 12th of October; the Fisheries Development Corporation’s fish landing center and wholesale market at Barguna’s Patahrghata was barren, silent and devoid of any sign of either fish or fishermen. An unlikely scenario for anyone who has previous experience of...
by Mahatub Khan Badhon | May 27, 2016 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries
This blog demonstrates the crucial role science can play in the sustainable management of mud crabs in the Sundarban, Bangladesh. The case presented here draws on a five-day field trip facilitated by Mangroves for The Future, Bangladesh in which two researchers and 15...
by Mohammad Arju | May 10, 2016 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries
The Department of Fisheries (DoF) says, the deep sea trawling ban season is intended to keep the ‘bulldozers of the sea’ off the water during main breeding season of fin-fishes, crustaceans, sharks and rays. DoF, for the first time in history, banned trawling in the...
by Mohammad Arju | Apr 11, 2016 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries
Banning bottom-trawling is not about the vessels only. We need sustainability of marine fisheries in the mind of business leaders and an efficient monitoring-control-surveillance system in place. It was meant to be a success story. Department of Fisheries (DoF)...
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