Assignment on fisheries management of baor

1. Assignment On:Fisheries Management of Baor
Course Title : Inland Fisheries Resources Management
Course code : FIMS-3101
Md. Akram Ullah
Lecturer
Dept. of Fisheries & Marine Science
Noakhali Science & Technology
University
Md. Khairul Islam
Roll: ASH-1502038M
Year-03, Term-01
Session:2014-15
Dept. of Fisheries& Marine Science
Noakhali Science & Technology
University
Submission Date: 15-10-2017
Dept. of Fisheries & Marine Science

2. 1
Index
Sl No. Name of content Page No.
1 Introduction 02
2 History of Baor 02
3 Features of Baor 03
4 List and area of baor 03
5 Resources of Baor 03-04
6 Baor Management in Bangladesh 04
7 Limitation 05
8 Recommendation 05
9 Conclusion 05

3. 2
Fisheries Management of Baor
Introduction:
Baors are oxbow lakes, formed by dead arms of rivers, are situated in the moribund delta of the
Ganges in western part of the country.There are about six hundred oxbow lakes in three greater
districts of Jessore, Kustia and Faridpur having many of this concentrations in greater Jessore
district. This oxbow lakes called baor, stretched from 282 hectares to the lowest 10 hectares.The
highest area of baor is contradictory because in the rainy season the areas increase a lot.There is
common property of these waterbodies, which have a high potential of production of fish
resources.
Baluhar Baor
History of Baor:
Baors present in Bangladesh in the 17th
centuries and may be ancient further.At the beginning
baors were the properties of Zamidars (Landlords) during the British colonial days (1757-1947)
and became government property after the abolition of the Zamidary system through a land
settlement act in 1951.

4. 3
Features of Baor:
1)Baors are more stagnant than beels and generally have water throughout the year.
2)The baors are very deep and the rooted vegetation is very common.
3)Baors are quite different from the beels and haors in their formation and are regarded as part of
the close water fishery resources.
4)There are 37 large oxbow lakes covering an area of about 4000 hectares and another 50 smaller
one's in the greater jessore district.
5)Their area is comparatively less(2.6% of the total culture fishery).
List and area of Baor:
Sl No. Name of District Name of Baor Area (in hector)
1 Jhinaidha Porapara 73
2 Chuadanga Benipur 19
3 Jessore Bokbhara 62
4 Faridpur Mariharnagar 05
5 Kushtia Kaliganga Badalbasha 11
Resources of Baor:
Fisheries resources:About 260 species of freshwater fishes are found in the inland water bodies
of Bangladesh. Inland fisheries alone cover an area of 4.3 million hectares of which 94%
comprise openwater capture fisheries, and only 6% close water system.The baors offer
tremendous scope and otential to augment fish production by adoption of culture-based fishery
enhancement technique.In baor, there are many fish species are found.They are Silver carp
(Hypophthalmichthys molitrix),Rui (Labeo rohita),Catla(Gibelion catla), Mrigal(Cirrhina
cirrhosis), Carpu(Cyprinus carpio), Grass carp(Ctenopharyngodon
idella ),Mola(Amblypharyngodon mola),Chanda(Chanda nama),Taki(Channa
punctatus),Shol(Channa striatus) etc.

5. 4
Agricultural resources: The rims of the baors are used for winter (boro) rice cultivation.
The flooded fields in the monsoon became rich with minerals and are very fertile. At one time,
undivided Bengal had about 15,000 varieties of cultivated rice but the germplasum
of most of them is lost leaving only about 6,000 (Khan et. al.1994). Baors are the source of
irrigation in winter. Almost every non-rice crops in Bangladesh grow in winter.
Baor Management in Bangladesh:
Over the years through government policy evolutions on the management of these pulic
waterbodies three forms of baor management have emerged as
1)Directly managed by government assistance through Department of Fisheries called Oxbow
Lake Project-1 strated operating since the early eighties.
2)Oxbow Lake Project-2 managed by fishers themselves under license to groups off listed
members for a period of fifty years and thus jointly managed by member fisheries(initially
supported by DANIDA/IFAD as a project )
3)Continuance of old system of leasing out to private bidders and thus singly managed by the
leaseholders.These are called private baor.
Many Government and Non-Government Organization also plays important role in baor
management:
Government Institutes (Departments) :
 •Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)
 •Department of Environment
 •Department of Fisheries
 •Ministry of Land
 •Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
 •Space Research and Remote Sensing.
Non government organizations:
 Center for Natural Resource Studies
 Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies
 BRAC

6. 5
Limitation :
MPO listed the following limitation to the development of the closed culture fishery in the baors.
1)Competing water users such as agriculture.
2)Lack of regularly available supply of large(15-20 cm) improved fish fingerlings for stocking.
3)Required removal of surface plants from baors.
4)Siltation.
5)Development of a management system and controlled harvest.
Recommendation:
1) Law of fisheries management should be applied properly.
2) Protect and preserve aquatic resources.
3) Reduce pollution(chemical pollution, industrial pollution etc).
4) Restore natural structure.
5) Restore ecological integrity.
6)Control of overfishing.
Conclusion :
Baor is highly productive ecology in our country.To enhance production of baor,we should apply
proper management and keep it pollution free.Various human activity destroying baor ecosystem
day by day.so, Government should take proper steps to protect baor ecology.so that, baor will
plays important role in our national economy.
Reference:
1. Fisheries Resources and Opportunities in Freshwater Fish culture in
Bangladesh(Mahmud-Ul-Ameen)
2. The Oxbow Lakes Management and its impact on the Livelihood of Fishers(Alam. S.
2003)
3. Management of Haors, Baors, and Beels in Bangladesh(Tapas Ranjan Chakraborty)

7. Write on Our blog
www.bdtipstech.com
Follow us on Fb
www.facebook.com/bdtipstech