2. What Is Blue
Economy?
The blue economy concept, which came out
of the 2012 Rio+20 Conference. • In
Bangladesh, discussions on blue economy
started after the settlement of maritime
boundary delimitation dispute with Myanmar
and India.
4. Food Security: Bangladesh gain more than 118000
square km sea area that increase food security level of
Bangladesh. According to some experts about 475
species fish are available in the bay. Annually 6.6 million
tones of fish are caught, of which very small portion are
exploited by our fishermen.
Energy Sector: This renewable energy source could
help diversify our energy portfolios and secure higher
levels of energy security
5. Tourism- Marine and coastal tourism
is of key importance to many developing countries
like Bangladesh. Tourism is a major global
industry; in 2012 international tourist arrivals
increased by 4% despite the global economic crisis
and constituted 9% of Global GDP. In 2012 tourism
supported 9% of global jobs and generated US$
1.3 trillion or 6% of the world’s export earnings.
International tourism has grown from 25 million in
1950 to 1,035 million in 2012.
6. Challenges for Bangladesh
The main challenges for Bangladesh
to gain from Blue economy are
taking proper steps and framework
for sustainable use of resources and
proper research. Eventually
Bangladesh do not having adequate
knowledge , skilled manpower,
equipment, for research in the deep
sea. So it is high time to take proper
steps to reduce such problem.
7. Overall • It is a great
opportunity for Bangladesh
to solve the main
Economical problem like
unemployment, shortage
of energy, lower GDP by
proper using our Blue
resources