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A Background Paper for Bangladesh Fisheries Value Chain Study Dr. Md. Ferdous Alam Research Fellow Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies Universiti Putra Malaysia Putra Infoport Jalan Kajang-Puchong 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor Malaysia March 2011 _________________________________________________________________ E-mail: dr.ferdous@ Telephone: 603-8947 1095 (office). 6016-397 3871 (mobile) Table of Contents Table of Contents I List of Tables II List of Figures II Acknowledgements III 1. Background 1 2. Introduction 1 3. Fisheries Sector in Bangladesh 2 3.1 National Fishery Policy 2 3.2 Fisheries Resources in Bangladesh 3 3.3 Fish Biodiversity in Bangladesh 3 3.4 Fish production and its growth 4 3.5 Intensity of Aquaculture Technology Practice 2 3.6 Fish Harvesting technologies 2 4. Fish and fisheries Product export 3 5. Fishing Grounds and Stock Assessment for Marine Fishing 4 5.1 Marine Fishing Ground 4 5.2 Marine Stock Assessment 6 6. Fishermen Cooperatives 6 7. Fish Markets and Marketing 7 7.1 Existence of Market Intermediaries 7 7.2 Fish Markets at Different Levels 7 7.3 Fish Market infrastructures 10 7.4 Transportation in Fish marketing 11 7.5 Marketing Margins and Farmer’s Share 11 8. Fisheries Regulations 13 8.1 Inland fisheries Management 13 8.2 Marine Fisheries Management 14 8.3 Fisheries Management in Sundarbans 15 8.4 Legislation for Aquaculture 16 9. Availability of Time Series Data 17 10. Need for Fisheries Value Chain Study in Bangladesh 18 11. Ongoing Fisheries Value Chain Studies 18 12. Species Selected for the Bangladesh Study 18 References 19 Appendices 23 List of Tables Table 1. Exotic Fish Species Introduced into Bangladesh, 1952-98 4 Table 2. Annual production and productivity by sector of fisheries, 2008-2009 5 Table 3: Species/group-wise Production (metric ton) in Inland Marine Fisheries, 2008-2009 2 Table 4: Exponential Growth Rates* of Fish Production of Different Fisheries 3 Duri