K.m. Mehedi Adnan

Small-scale Marine Fishing in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh: Marine Fisheries K.m. Mehedi Adnan

Two major production technologies are used in small-scale marine fishing: longline and setbag net fishing. According to availability and distribution, 30 longlines and 45 setbag net boats were selected randomly and the data and information were collected from the listed fishermen for a period of 3 months, January to march 2012. Average per trip gross returns for longline and setbag net were Tk. 280540 and 446990 per boat and their corresponding net returns were Tk. 122550 and 220020 per boat, respectively. It was observed that providing of higher level of efforts resulted in larger catch as well as higher level of income per boat. Therefore, providing higher level of efforts and better management, setbag fishermen earned higher level of income compared to other type of fishing gear.