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Bioeconomics of Commercial Marine Fisheries of Bay of Bengal : Status and Direction
Joint Authors
Duy, Nguyen Ngoc
Ullah, Md. Hadayet
Habib, Ahasan
Source
Economics Research International
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-04-02
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The fishery of the Bay of Bengal (BOB) is assumed to be suffering from the overexploitation.
This paper aims to assess the sustainability of current level of fishing effort as well as possible changes driven by anthropogenic and climate driven factors.
Therefore, the commercial marine fishery of BOB for the period of 1985/86 to 2007/08 is analyzed by applying Gordon-Schaefer Surplus Production Model on time series of total catch and standardized effort.
Static reference points such as open-access equilibrium, maximum economic yield, and maximum sustainable yield are established.
Assumptions about potential climatic and anthropogenic effects on r (intrinsic growth rate) and K (carrying capacity) of BOB fishery have been made under three different reference equilibriums.
The results showed that the fishery is not biologically overexploited; however, it is predicted to be passing a critical situation, in terms of achieving reference points in the near future.
But, on the other hand, economic overfishing started several years before.
Higher fishing effort, and inadequate institutional and legal framework have been the major bottlenecks for the proper management of BOB fisheries and these may leads fishery more vulnerable against changing marine realm.
Thus, the present study calls for policy intervention to rescue the stock from the existing high fishing pressure that would lead to depletion.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Habib, Ahasan& Ullah, Md. Hadayet& Duy, Nguyen Ngoc. 2014. Bioeconomics of Commercial Marine Fisheries of Bay of Bengal : Status and Direction. Economics Research International،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Habib, Ahasan…[et al.]. Bioeconomics of Commercial Marine Fisheries of Bay of Bengal : Status and Direction. Economics Research International No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-10.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Habib, Ahasan& Ullah, Md. Hadayet& Duy, Nguyen Ngoc. Bioeconomics of Commercial Marine Fisheries of Bay of Bengal : Status and Direction. Economics Research International. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-479675
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-479675