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Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh

Inland capture fisheries are providing cost of livings of about 1.2 million BDT in Bangladesh. However, overexploitation causing the declination of the abundance of native fish species which adversely affects the livelihoods of haor dwellers. The present study was conducted in two haor villages (Sut...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Bodrul, Munir, Shahidul Islam, Bhuiya, Abdul, Hannan, Fozlul, Kabeer, Md. Jamal, Hossain, Alam, AKM Nowsad
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Published: UNIMAS Publisher 2021
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SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
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spelling my.unimas.ir.368902023-05-19T01:24:30Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36890/ Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh Mohammad Bodrul, Munir Shahidul Islam, Bhuiya Abdul, Hannan Fozlul, Kabeer Md. Jamal, Hossain Alam, AKM Nowsad SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling Inland capture fisheries are providing cost of livings of about 1.2 million BDT in Bangladesh. However, overexploitation causing the declination of the abundance of native fish species which adversely affects the livelihoods of haor dwellers. The present study was conducted in two haor villages (Sutarpara and Changnoagaon) of Kishoreganj, Bangladesh to explore the factors (economic and non-economic) affecting fishers’ attitude and willingness about cage aquaculture considered as livelihood alternative for reducing fishing pressure. The methodologies applied to do this study were semi-structured face-to-face interview, key informants and questionnaire survey using Likert scale (LS), focus group discussions (FGD). The result revealed that willingness to switch from traditional way of fishing to cage aquaculture activities was significantly (P<0.05) higher in those fishers’ groups that had more inclination in fishing activities. Simultaneously, non-economic factors like powerful traders and fishers, traditional belief, taking risk, launching period of cage aquaculture venture and investment duration played vital role in decisions on whether to fish or not. The economic factors were fewer in number than non-economic factors. This comparative research is significantly important for future social aquaculture researchers as well as the country policy makers for giving emphasis to gather data based on the prevailing economic and non-economic factors to innovate alternative livelihood activity concurrently. UNIMAS Publisher 2021-12-31 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36890/1/Mohammad%20Bodrul%20Munir.pdf Mohammad Bodrul, Munir and Shahidul Islam, Bhuiya and Abdul, Hannan and Fozlul, Kabeer and Md. Jamal, Hossain and Alam, AKM Nowsad (2021) Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh. Borneo Journal of Resource Science and Technology, 11 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2229-9769 (Submitted) https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/BJRST/authorDashboard/submission/4077
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topic SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
spellingShingle SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
Mohammad Bodrul, Munir
Shahidul Islam, Bhuiya
Abdul, Hannan
Fozlul, Kabeer
Md. Jamal, Hossain
Alam, AKM Nowsad
Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh
description Inland capture fisheries are providing cost of livings of about 1.2 million BDT in Bangladesh. However, overexploitation causing the declination of the abundance of native fish species which adversely affects the livelihoods of haor dwellers. The present study was conducted in two haor villages (Sutarpara and Changnoagaon) of Kishoreganj, Bangladesh to explore the factors (economic and non-economic) affecting fishers’ attitude and willingness about cage aquaculture considered as livelihood alternative for reducing fishing pressure. The methodologies applied to do this study were semi-structured face-to-face interview, key informants and questionnaire survey using Likert scale (LS), focus group discussions (FGD). The result revealed that willingness to switch from traditional way of fishing to cage aquaculture activities was significantly (P<0.05) higher in those fishers’ groups that had more inclination in fishing activities. Simultaneously, non-economic factors like powerful traders and fishers, traditional belief, taking risk, launching period of cage aquaculture venture and investment duration played vital role in decisions on whether to fish or not. The economic factors were fewer in number than non-economic factors. This comparative research is significantly important for future social aquaculture researchers as well as the country policy makers for giving emphasis to gather data based on the prevailing economic and non-economic factors to innovate alternative livelihood activity concurrently.
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author Mohammad Bodrul, Munir
Shahidul Islam, Bhuiya
Abdul, Hannan
Fozlul, Kabeer
Md. Jamal, Hossain
Alam, AKM Nowsad
author_facet Mohammad Bodrul, Munir
Shahidul Islam, Bhuiya
Abdul, Hannan
Fozlul, Kabeer
Md. Jamal, Hossain
Alam, AKM Nowsad
author_sort Mohammad Bodrul, Munir
title Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh
title_short Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh
title_full Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh
title_fullStr Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Factors Affecting Fishers’ Attitude and Willingness to use Cage Aquaculture as an Alternative Livelihood for Reducing Fishing Pressure in Haor Areas, Bangladesh
title_sort factors affecting fishers’ attitude and willingness to use cage aquaculture as an alternative livelihood for reducing fishing pressure in haor areas, bangladesh
publisher UNIMAS Publisher
publishDate 2021
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36890/1/Mohammad%20Bodrul%20Munir.pdf
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https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/BJRST/authorDashboard/submission/4077
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