Patterns of Co-operation in Community Based Fishery Management: A Sociological Study on the People of Hail Haor

Abstract

To maintain the ecological balance of wetland and to ensure food security government of Bangladesh has taken community based resources or fishery management approach. Co-operation is one of the major components of it. This paper measures the patterns of co-operation in community based fishery management system and its impact on people's life. Descriptive design has been followed in this study. Sample has been selected through simple random sampling technique as well as social survey technique has been applied to collect data. Patterns of co-operations and the indicators of the impacts are measured through the Likert Scale and Semantic Differential Scale. It's found that the negative co-operation is existed in the study area and most of the respondent's attitudes are also negative about the effect of community based management system.

How Do Vulnerable People in Bangladesh Experience Environmental Stress From Sedimentation in the Haor Wetlands? An Exploratory Study

“…For example, people have to stay with relatives during the monsoon season or seek shelter for fear of sand and water fluxes from flash floods, even at night. As a result, families are sometimes forced to migrate to nearby urban areas searching for alternative livelihoods (Chakraborty, Mondal, et al., 2012; Chowdhury, Kamal, et al., 2012). Our study finds that such migration reduces exposure to sedimentation pressures, but it may increase other risks— such as increased drug use, infectious diseases, and food insecurity (Ayeb‐Karlsson et al., 2016).…”

“…Haor covers an area of approximately 2 million hectares (19,998 km 2 ) and supports a population of 19.37 million people (Chakraborty et al., 2021; Kamal et al., 2018). The haor basin is actively subsiding, and its hydrological, topographical, geomorphological, and socioeconomic features are distinctive as compared to other parts of Bangladesh (Chakraborty, Mondal, et al., 2012; Chowdhury, Kamal, et al., 2012; IUCN, 2015). The geology of the haor basin consists of 13–20 km thick alluvial and deltaic deposits underlain by gneisses and granites, and the basin is bounded by the Shillong Plateau to the north (Figure 1), the Indo‐Burman Range to the east, and the Indian Shield to the west.…”

“…However, the ecosystem of these wetlands has been degraded significantly due to: (a) changing rainfall patterns linked to climate change, (b) uncontrolled resource use, including deforestation, and mining activities such as coal, limestone and sand mining, both in the lower haor basin and upstream in the Indian Hills, and (c) reduction in the area and depth of water bodies due to sedimentation. Parts of the haor landscape have thus become one of the major disaster areas in Bangladesh that are prone to flash floods and environmental pollution (Chakraborty, Mondal, et al., 2012; Chowdhury, Kamal, et al., 2012; Haq & Ahmed, 2017; Masood & Takeuchi, 2016; Uddin et al., 2013).…”

The Basic Determinants of Malnutrition: Resources, Structures, Ideas and Power

“…The situation of the Haor illustrates, therefore, how the extreme poor, particularly migrants and women, are excluded from natural capital essential to producing or accessing food, if they lack the physical or social capital of family land rights (a form of social institutions); or the social and cultural capital necessary to access new resource management programmes (a political institution) which tend to privilege longstanding residents of the region, existing large landholders, and men. [57][58][59] All these factors combined go some way to explaining why communities surveyed in the Haor region had a stunting rate of around 45% in 2016, 60 much higher than the Bangladesh average at that time [2] . 61 Ultimately, differences in food access and nutrition outcomes are demonstrably avoidable, and hence inequitable; social justice principles demand they be addressed.…”