This paper examines the impact of Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) on fishing households’ welfare in Bangladesh. It analyses how the various types of livelihood assets contribute to ...fishers’ household incomes. The study found that fishers in CBFM project areas have improved their access to different assets including social, human, physical, financial and natural capitals. The regression results show that social capital contributed significantly to household income, indicating that social factors play very important roles in poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. Future poverty alleviation policy options need to give priority to investments in human, physical and natural capital assets.
► We examine impacts of Community Based Fisheries on fishers' welfare in Bangladesh. ► We analyze how the various types of livelihood assets contribute to fishers' income. ► Fishers in Community Based project areas have increased access to social capital. ► Social capital contributes to household income and can reduce poverty in Bangladesh.
The importance of the fisheries sector to the Asian economy is widely acknowledged. Its significance lies in three main areas: (i) as a source of animal protein for human consumption, (ii) as a ...source of employment, and (iii) as a source of foreign exchange. About 150 million people in Asia are economically dependent on fishing and its related activities, although marine fishing accounts for only about 1% of the total world-wide economy. Table 1 shows the distribution of world marine catch by principal producers in 1993. Ten out of twenty top world fish producers are Asian, with China contributing about 10 million tons of fish, or 11.9% of the total world catch. These ten countries together account for almost 43% of the world's fish catch. Ten percent is produced by Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam (FAO 1995). In 1992 Asia accounted for almost 43% of the world's total fishing fleet, far ahead of its more advanced counterparts from the former USSR, Europe, and North America. Table 2 shows the distribution, by continent, of the world's nominal catch and total fishing fleet. In terms of productivity of the fishing fleet, the index for Asian fisheries is quite low at 4.39 metric tons per gross registered ton (GRT) compared to those in South America, Africa, and Oceania (FAO 1995). With population growing at a rapid rate and an increasing demand for fish among Asians, it is expected that more pressure will be applied to already dwindling fish stocks in this region. The facts of the fishing crisis in Asia have been well documented, yet there is little indication that the fishing industry and those who control it are interested in anything other than short-term economic gain. The general response to declining fish stocks around the world has been to continue employing bigger boats and more sophisticated methods to increase catches and maintain markets. As seen from table 3, Asia accounts for 85% of the number of decked vessels in operation, and about 62% of undecked vessels in 1992. In terms of capacity this represents a 129% increase in the GRT of decked vessels in Asia compared to a 91% increase in capacity of decked vessels for the world as a whole between 1970 and 1992. It appears that Asia may be making the same mistakes Europe, USSR, and North America have made with regard to overcapitalization in the fisheries.
Fisheries co-management as an alternative to centralized command and control fisheries management is often suggested as a solution to the problems of fisheries resource use conflicts and ...overexploitation. Various researchers have talked of the importance of studying the role of transaction costs between different institutional arrangements for managing fisheries resources. This article provides an analysis of measurements of the transaction costs under a fisheries co-management system in San Salvador Island, Philippines. The results obtained for the period 1988-1996 indicate that the difference in the total costs of fisheries management between centralized government management and co-management is not that significant. However, the downstream or implementation costs are lower for a co-managed approach. This is because the cost of monitoring and enforcement are lower, and there is higher compliance with rules and regulations. This is important from a policy perspective as the implementation costs are the costs encountered on a perpetual basis as the management institutions are implemented. This could result in an overall lower cost of managing the fisheries resources for the society.
The tourism industry has become an important foreign exchange earner in Malaysia in recent years. One of the most visited tourist areas is the Tioman Island. Factor analysis was carried out to ...determine the perception among tourists regarding the overall attractiveness of this site. Eight factors were perceived to be important and they are environmental protection, public amunities, tourists numbers, recreational facilities, transportation facilities, costs, aesthetic value and the host of the island
During the last decade the co-management concept has gained increasing acceptance as a potential way forward to improve fisheries management performance. It has, however, at the same time become ...increasingly evident that the co-management concept is not clearly defined and means very different things to different people. In this article, we attempt to document experience available from a recent study on fisheries co-management that has researched case studies of various implementations of co-management arrangements in coastal and freshwater fisheries in South East Asia and Southern Africa, and to present a more comprehensive understanding of co-management and to summarise the experiences with both the positive outcomes and the problems in actual implementation.
International Institute of Fisheries Economics and TradeU.S. National Marine Fisheries ServiceMG Kailis Group
Fisheries co-management starts with the premise that stakeholders have the innate ...capacity to improve resourcecondition as well as the welfare of the society. If this is true, there is a need for rapid and substantial devolution of fisheriesmanagement institutions. The main purpose of this study was to examine net welfare change to society as a result of the comanagementsystem at Oxbow Lakes in Bangladesh. The simultaneous equation model consisting of supply, demand andidentity equations were estimated and Marshallian surplus measurement was used to estimate the welfare change before andafter the co-management system. The pooling technique proposed by Kmenta (1971; 1986) was utilized for the estimation.The analysis showed that the co-management program had caused a welfare gain to society.
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