Climate Change and Fisheries in Bangladesh: Impacts and Adaptations in The Context of Marginal and Poor Fishers (original) (raw)

This paper looks at the possible consequences and adaptations to Climate Change for fish and people, particularly the marginal and poor fishers in Bangladesh. Fish from Bangladeshs vast inland waters are vital to millions of marginal and poor people, but catches and species diversity have been declining due to the problems, like climatic vulnerabilities, habitat degradations, draught, water-logging, etc. Bangladesh is likely to be one of the most vulnerable countries in the World to the climatic vulnerabilities. Climate change is the most serious and biggest challenge for marginal and poor fishers in the rural areas, mainly in the disaster-prone haor and river basin, monga-prone and coastal belt of the country-side. It is observed that during the monsoon, salt-water intrusion from the Bay of Bengal affects the agriculture and fisheries within the 100 kilometers of the country-side. This paper gives an account on the potential impacts of climate change on the fisheries and people, an...

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