explain the efforts of government in helping the fishermen
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The government's avowed macro-economic policies and strategy of development greatly influence the growth of a particular sector or sub-sector. The Fifth Five-Year Plan (FFYP) stated that the major thrust for fisheries development will be culture and capture fisheries, promotion of rice-fish farming system in the vast floodplains and conservation and management along with institutional and man-power development for equitable distribution of benefits from common property water resources through research on social engineering.
The major objectives for the development of the fishery's sub-sector during the fifth plan-period (1997-2002) were to:
generate additional employment opportunities in fisheries and ancillary industries to help alleviate poverty;
increase fish production and improve nutritional levels;
improve the socio-economic conditions of the fishermen, fish farmers and other people engaged in the fishery sub-sector;
increase export earnings from shrimps, fish and fish products;
improve environmental conditions;
improve the biological and institutional management mechanisms for the judicious use of fisheries' resources;
strengthen research, extension, management and co-ordination in order to transfer technology and encourage production activities in the private sector, and to ensure sustainable development of resources of the vast floodplains.
3.2 Major programme areas for government during FFYP period
3.2.1 Open-water capture fisheries
A area of 2.8 million ha of fish habitat in the floodplains remains an unutilized resource for fish-production. In order to increase production from open-water fisheries, programmes will have to be instigated to:
conserve resources through rigorous implementation of the Fish Acts and motivation of fishermen;
establish fish sanctuaries;
increase production by massive stockings of fast-growing carp fingerlings in natural depressions and floodplains;
develop fish culture in paddy fields through protective measures against adverse effects of flood control, drainage and irrigation projects, roads and highways projects, townships and housing projects.
To offset a recent trend in the decline of stocks in open waters, efforts were made to augment these stocks through releases of fish fries into the flood plains. But the programmes did not yield good results. Appropriate procedures and management techniques will have to be put in place to ensure accountability and transparency in the execution of programmes of the five-year-plan for fisheries in open waters.
3.2.2 Closed-water culture fisheries
Bangladesh has over 1.3 million ponds (this figure may be too low) covering an estimated area of 147 000 ha, some 6 000 ha of ox-bow lakes and over 130 000 ha of shrimp farms. Currently, the average production in fresh water ponds is 1.4 t/ha, and that of shrimp farms in brackish waters is only 160 kg/ha. Programmes will be designed to bring all of the 1.3 million ponds under extension programmes of the DOF, BFDC, FRI and NGOs during the five-year-plan period.
3.2.3 Aquaculture in brackish water
An estimated 0.143 million ha of coastal land is under shrimp farming in brackish waters. The method is largely traditional, and current average production is 160 kg/ha. Recently, farmers, especially in Bagerhat and Perojpur, have started to culture shrimps in their paddy fields. Areas for farming are rapidly expanding. Development of brackish-water fisheries will be contingent upon the provision of infrastructures, supply of fry and other inputs, security, technical advice, disease control and training of farmers in improved scientific farming techniques. With more support from DOF, BFDC, FRI and other extension agencies, it will be possible to raise production of shrimps to 400 kg/ha, which will yield an additional production of at least 60 000 t. by the last year of the five-year-plan[13]. Semi-intensive farming is currently practised on 5 000 ha by a number of entrepreneurs, who have achieved production of 3-5 t/ha. The DOF is currently identifying suitable areas for semi-intensive farming and suitable sites for establishing shrimp-hatcheries. Private businessmen will be encouraged to invest in hatchery operations. The government will support development of suitable land by providing roads, electricity and other infrastructures. Joint-venture investments, including foreign investment in hatchery operations, feed production and other related activities will be encouraged.
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Answer:
The government's avowed macro-economic policies and strategy of development greatly influence the growth of a particular sector or sub-sector. The Fifth Five-Year Plan (FFYP) stated that the major thrust for fisheries development will be culture and capture fisheries, promotion of rice-fish farming system in the vast floodplains and conservation and management along with institutional and man-power development for equitable distribution of benefits from common property water resources through research on social engineering.
The major objectives for the development of the fishery's sub-sector during the fifth plan-period (1997-2002) were to:
generate additional employment opportunities in fisheries and ancillary industries to help alleviate poverty;
increase fish production and improve nutritional levels;
improve the socio-economic conditions of the fishermen, fish farmers and other people engaged in the fishery sub-sector;
increase export earnings from shrimps, fish and fish products;
improve environmental conditions;
improve the biological and institutional management mechanisms for the judicious use of fisheries' resources;
strengthen research, extension, management and co-ordination in order to transfer technology and encourage production activities in the private sector, and to ensure sustainable development of resources of the vast floodplains.