Fisheries sector plays a significant role in national food security, empowerment and foreign exchange earnings the economy of Bangladesh. At same time, Bangladesh is blessed with enormous water resources inland culture (8,21,923 ha), capture (38,90,282 ha) marine (1,18,81,300 having great potentials fisheries production. Inland culture, provides 56.76%, 28.19% 15.05% production, respectively. T...

A checklist of 110 species fishes belonging to 10 orders, 31 families and 78 genera was recorded with their scientific, common Bangla or local names. These fish specimens were collected from the rivers, beels, haors, ponds swamps middle North-east Bangladesh (Jamalpur, Netrokona, Kishorganj, Munshiganj Bogra Districts). The order Cypriniformes (37%) higher followed by Perciformes (24%), Silurif...

Wetlands in Bangladesh have undergone rapid degradation, primarily attributable to a range of factors. These factors include marked increase population, extensive water diversion for irrigation purposes, depletion swamp forests, as well other natural and anthropogenic causes. Hakaluki Haor is vast wetland area located at North East provides habitat diverse fish species. Due causes, species are ...

Since 1998 the Management of Aquatic Ecosystems through Community Husbandry (MACH) project has established what is best described as community based co-management of three large wetland systems covering in total about 32,000 ha (about 4,600 ha of water in the dry season). Caritas and BCAS working closely with Department of Fisheries and Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock. The key elements of t...

Seasonality and composition of epipelic diatom community were studied for two years in two wetlands of Bangladesh namely, Joysagar and Sitlai Beel. A total 73 diatom taxa were recorded. The average density of epipelic diatom was higher in Sitlai Beel (52.97  10/g sediment) than in the Joysagar (3.92 10/g sediment). The epipelic diatom community of Joysagar was dominated by the species of Melo...