Assessing fishers' empowerment in inland openwater fisheries in Bangladesh
G.M. Shamsul Kabir,
Tai Shzee Yew,
Kusairi Mohd. Noh and
Law Siong Hook
Ecological Economics, 2011, vol. 70, issue 11, 2114-2123
Abstract:
The Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) approach has made a significant contribution towards improvement of fishers' empowerment of inland openwater fisheries in Bangladesh aiming to manage their resources efficiently. This arrangement introduced CBFM approaches named fisher-led, community-led and women-led approach. A wider range of local institutional arrangements as community based organizations (CBOs) have been established through participatory process with legal entity. Now, the CBOs as local institutions and fishers are more empowered in participation of fishery management under co-management arrangement. The study reveals that there is still lack of institutional arrangement to be achieved at optimum level. This paper presents and assesses the empowerment status of the fisher communities in inland openwater fisheries under co-management arrangement in Bangladesh through Factor analysis and regression model. This study might have policy implication to replicate the community based fishery management approach to promote empowerment for better management.
Keywords: Community; based; fishery; management; Bangladesh; Inland; openwater; fisheries; CBFM; approach; Empowerment; CBOs; and; co-management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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