Bio-economic trends of the Hilsa Shad (Tenualosa ilisha) fishery: Perspectives of transboundary management

Shatrajit Goswami¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.5 , pp.101-112, May-2020

Online published on May 31, 2020

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Abstract :
Hilsa Shad (Tenualosa ilisha), the choicest table fish of the Indian Sub-continent,provides livelihood for2.5 million fishers in Bangladesh (Islam et al. 2016)and 0.46 million inWest Bengal, India. The contribution of Hilsa to GDP is around 1 % (Mohammed 2014) in Bangladesh .Hilsa is an anatropous fish spread over Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin which sprawled across the International boarders of India and Bangladesh. This paper suggest that such steps towards the long term sustainability of the Hilsa fishery are not to be taken unilaterally but through a trans-boundary management approach by neighbouring India and Bangladesh.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Hilsa fishery, Economic efficiency; Discount rate, Effort dynamics, Trans-boundary management

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