S. A. Haque
Bangladesh is a deltaic country with total area of 147,570 km 2 . The major part (80%) of the country consists of alluvial sediments deposited by the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra, Tista, Jamuna, Meghna and their tributaries. Terraces with an altitude of 20-30 m cover about 8% of the country, while hil...
Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad Mahmudul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Tania, Md. Abdullah Al-Mamun et al.
Bangladesh is considered one of the most suitable regions for fisheries in the world, with the world's largest flooded wetland and the third largest aquatic biodiversity in Asia after China and India. This paper reviews the performance of fisheries in Bangladesh using data collected from the Banglad...
Haroun Er Rashid
In its struggle for independence, Bangladesh became the focal point of world attention in the early 1970s. It emerged victorious, but its development was hindered by the after-effects of the war—the destruction of much of its infrastructure, problems of governmental change, and the enormous difficul...
Apurba Krishna Deb
Kazi Ali Toufique, Ben Belton
Aquaculture is widely held to contribute to poverty reduction and food security in the Global South, but robust evidence is limited. Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, this study analyses changes in fish consumption from 2000 to 2010. Rapid expansion of commercial aquaculture pegg...
John F. Craig, A.S. Halls, J.J.F. Barr, Colin W. Bean
Mohammad R. Hasan, Michael B. New
This technical paper reviews the current status of on-farm feeding and feed management in aquaculture. It contains a) ten case studies on feeding and feed management practices carried out in seven selected countries of Asia (i.e., Bangladesh, China, India, Thailand, Viet Nam) and Africa (i.e., Egypt...
Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder, Sabrina Jannat Mitu, Abu Faisal Ahamad et al.
Bangladesh possesses a large wetland area comprising diversified fisheries resources. Fish and fisheries are an integral part of Bangladesh and have earned its importance due to immense export and revenue potential. The objective of this study was to investigate the trend of fish production, export ...
Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Nanna Roos, Nehad Hassan
In Bangladesh, only 6% of the daily food intake is animal food of which fish accounts for 50%. Rice is the mainstay, making up 60% of the daily food intake. However, many nutrients such as vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, zinc and iodine are not found in rice and have to be obtained from other sourc...
Masuma Chowdhury, Mohammad Emran Hasan, M.M. Abdullah-Al-Mamun
Being the only tidal river where major Indian carps spawn naturally, Halda is a unique heritage of Bangladesh and the surroundings of this river undergo chronological changes because of rapid urbanization, anthropogenic and socioeconomic activities. In this study, an attempt has been made to analyze...
Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, Ben Belton
Fish contribute a significant amount of animal protein to the diets of people in Bangladesh, about 63% of which comes from aquatic animals. In Bangladesh, fish is mainly derived from two sources: capture and culture. Aquaculture has shown tremendous growth in the last two decades, exhibiting by abou...
Nesar Ahmed, Harvey Demaine, James Muir
Within the overall agro-based economy in Bangladesh, freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farming is currently one of the most important sectors of the national economy. During the last two decades, its development has attracted considerable attention for its export potential. Freshwater pra...
K. C. Jayaram
Bishwajit Ghose
The purpose of this paper is to review the performance of fisheries sector in Bangladesh and the challenges it is facing. Data and information were sourced from the publication of the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and related non-published grey literature. Bangladesh is predominantly an agrarian eco...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, M. A. H. Mollik, Md. Khirul Islam, M. R. Islam et al.