Published on: April 29, 2020, Submitted by Innocent Bikara on: April 22, 2020, Reporting year: 2019
Allowable mesh size determined to be 6.5 cm for all types of hilsa gillnets. The Government of Bangladesh has accepted the recommendations and processed for a gazette notification.
Hilsa catch
ECOFISH project conducted comprehensive studies through experimental fishing involving fishers (Citizen Scientists) and research vessel through Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) and consulted the outputs with all stakeholders regionally as well as centrally, and then recommended the allowable mesh size as 6.5 cm for all types of hilsa gillnets to ensure the MSY of hilsa. The central workshop was organized at the Matshya Bhaban, Dhaka, where the final decision was taken in the presence of the Honorable Minister of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL), Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL), and Director General of the Department of Fisheries (DoF). The Government of Bangladesh has accepted the recommendations and processed for a gazette notification. After notification, the recommended mesh size regulation will be effective immediately and the Jatka catch will be reduced further and increase hilsa production to reach close to the estimated MSY level.
3.2.1 - More productive and equitable management of natural resources
Capacity Development & Knowledge Sharing: 1 - Significant objective
Climate change: 1 - Significant objective
Policy/Investment Type: Policy or Strategy
Whose policy is fixed? Public Sector
Stage of Maturity: Level 1 - Research taken up by next user (decision maker or intermediary)
This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) led by WorldFish. The program is supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund. Funding support for this work was provided by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the Enhanced coastal fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH) project.
Innocent Bikara is a Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with a joint appointment
at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM/WorldFish) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), and is based in Bangladesh. Innocent has worked in M&E
units of three CGIAR centers, with roles designed to coordinate and strengthen
institutional M&E frameworks and enhance country-level and project-level
M&E work in conformity to the institutional M&E frameworks, CGIAR
Standards and global best practices. Innocent holds a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics, a Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry
A.B.M.
Mahfuzul Haque is currently working in WorldFish Bangladesh office as
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Focal Point and M&E Specialist in the
ECOFISH-Bangladesh project. He joined WorldFish in 2007 as a PhD scholar and
has continued in current position. He has completed his PhD degree in Agricultural
Economics from Wageningen University, The Netherlands and diploma in Community
Based Development from Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier
University, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has obtained his B.Sc. and MS degrees in Agricultural
Economics from Bangladesh Agricultural University. He is trained in the areas
of social and economic aspects of fisheries and aquaculture, livelihood,
microeconomics and quantitative economics by working in WorldFish and
non-government organizations. He also has developed his expertise on
agribusiness, finance, and production economics, monitoring and evaluation and
ex-ante and ex-post impact evaluation. His experience in monitoring and research in fish production,
household income, small farm business, and technology adoption in relation to
farm household performance spans over 12 years with CGIAR. As a Monitoring and
Evaluation leader, he will continue to strive to produce an internationally
recognized research, learning, and outreach program, which will help to further
strengthen and enhance monitoring, evaluation and impact assessments.
Throughout his career he has developed and designed result monitoring,
evaluation and learning strategies, including identification of performance
indicators considering DCED standard, developed M&E tools and methods,
performance monitoring and evaluation Plan for different development and
research projects, and information management (both quantitative and
qualitative). His nine peer review papers published in international
journal.
