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Livelihood Strategies of Tiger Shrimp Post Larvae Collectors in Backkhali River Estuary, Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh

MAHMUDUL HASAN
Institute of Marine Science & Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong- 4331

MD. SHAHZAD KULI KHAN
Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Marine Fisheries & Technology Station, Cox’s Bazar- 4700

MOHAMMED ASHRAFUL HAQUE
Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Marine Fisheries & Technology Station, Cox’s Bazar- 4700

EHSANUL KARIM
Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Marine Fisheries & Technology Station, Cox’s Bazar- 4700

PARTHO PRATIM DEBNATH
World Fish Center, Cox’s Bazar-4700, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study aim was to understand the livelihoods of tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon, Fabricius, 1798) post larvae collectors in the Backkhali river estuary areas under Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh during November 2010 to April 2011 where shrimp fry are caught. There are about 130-140 families and about 1000 people are living in the adjacent area. Most of the fry collectors have no land or house. They build house on Government (khas) land near the coast, the housing is mainly with earthen/bamboo or polythen. It was found that per month income of 30% of fry collector 5000-6000 taka and 48.3% have no toilet. Also it was found that 43.3% respondents had 2 meals per day only. The main occupations of this community are shrimp post larvae collecting, small treading, day labor, hilsha fishing, fishing labor, fish drying, salt production and farming.

Keywords: Livelihood strategy, Post larvae, Post larvae collector and Coastal area

Location: Cox’s Bazar district.

Start Date: 00-11-2010

End Date: 00-04-2011

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Shrimp

Objectives:

1. To describe and analyzed the livelihood of the PL collectors and 2. To find out whether they have or have improved the PL based economies of the coastal community an income sources of household.

Methodology:

The Bakkhali river estuary is located at North-West side of Cox’s Bazar town which adjacent with Moheshkhali channel. It is an important nursery ground of marine fishes, which is one of the most important wild tiger shrimp fry collecting areas of Bangladesh. For this purpose a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods were used during data collection. It’s conducted from November 2010 to April 2011. Quantitative methods derived from Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques include participant observation, semi structured interviews, focus group discussion, resource mapping and seasonal calendar. This was complemented with survey of post larvae collector’s households through the use of questionnaires. Then it is sedated five point Likert scale. Quantitative data was analyzed through the use of Microsoft Excel and SPSS software. Simple descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteristics of households with the levels of income, the livelihood activities engaged in and asset status components. Qualitative data were analyzed through text analysis. Also combined mean value of all the attributes was calculated through the weighted mean of each individual attribute of every village. Ordinal scale-wise percentage occurrence of the each attribute was also calculated from the collected data.

Source of Information: Int. J. Sustain. Agril. Tech. 8(9): 01-07, September 2012

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Achievement/Findings:

The combine mean of all attribute were (3.37). From this result the researcher stated on the Likert scale and the scale was shown that the livelihood strategies of shrimp PL collectors are between “Moderate” and “Worse” level. But some attribute have four variable for this meaner the livelihoods of PL fisher are also going to decrease. So, the livelihood conditions of PL collectors were not a sustainable level.

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