Inland fisheries resource management

1. Fisheries Management of Baor

2. Presented by:
 Jaker hossain- ASH1502004M
 Khairul Islam -ASH1502038M
 Hashan Uz Zaman -ASH1502039M
 Sajjat Hossain Chowdury -ASH1502040M
 Rafikul Islam -ASH1502041M

3. At a glance
Introduction
Baor
Feature of Baor
Fisheries resources of Baor
Baors of Bangladesh
Existing fisheries management of Baor
Problem in Baor management
Recommendation
Conclusion

4. Introduction
 Baors (in Bangla) or Oxbow lakes (in English) are one
of the very common inland water bodies of
Bangladesh.
 There are about six hundred oxbow lakes (created by
changing or dying river course) in three greater districts
of Jessore,Kustia and Faridpur having many of those
concentrations in greater Jessor district.
 These oxbow lakes stretched from 282 hectors to the
lowest 10 hectors.

5. Baor
An Oxbow lake (Baor) is a dead section of a river
created when the river changed course. A Baor
normally is still part of the flood plain of the river to
which inlets and outlets connect it by screening the
inlets and outlets a baor can be converted into a culture
based fishery (DOF-1996). The name Oxbow refers to
it shape and is called Oxbow lake (in Bangla,Baor)

6. Important features of Baor:
The common important features of Baors are given
bellow:
 Baors appears as a saucer shaped depression.
 They range in size from half a square kilometer to 13
sq. km.
 Baors are more stagnant than beels and generally have
water throughout the year.
 Baors receive water only when the parent river is in
high flood. Usually, during the wet season a baor
receives local rainwater.

7. Continued…..
 There are often many villages around a baor.
Consequently, it is difficult to exclude the people living
around a baor from drawing benefits from that baor.
 Baor are commonly rich in aquatic biodiversity with a
greater respective of fisheries resources.
 The highest area of baors is contradictory because in the
rainy season the areas increase a lot. These are common
property of these water bodies, which have a high
potential o production of fish resources.

8. Fisheries Resources of Baor
SL Groups No. of species
1 Fishes 72
Cultured fish 8
Captured fish 64
2 Annelids 3
3 Arthropods 20
4 Mollusks 8
5 Amphibians 3
6 Reptiles 13
7 Aquatic macrophytes 22
According to Jahan (1993) the fisheries resources of Baor are-

9. Baors of Bangladesh
Hamidpur Fatepur
Bookbhara Rufdia
Rajgonj Baluhar
Konadia Joydia
Jhaparbeel Bahadurpur
Bergobindapur Majdia
Ujjalpur Purakhali

10. Existing fisheries management of Baor
 Fisheries management is the activity of protecting
fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is
possible, drawing on fisheries science, and including
the precautionary principle.
 It aims to optimizing the use of fishery resources as:
1.A source of human livelihood,
2.Food and recreation,
3.Dynamic regulating fishing activity, meeting
resources related objectives or contains.

11. Management authority
 Modern fisheries management is often referred to as a
governmental system of appropriate management rules based on
defined objectives and a mix of management means to implement
the rules, which are put in place by a system of monitoring
control and surveillance.
 Authority includes-
1.Department of Fisheries
2.Marine Fisheries Academy
3.BFDC
4.BFRI

12. Authority cont.
 DoF was responsible for managing the Baor. This
organization has developed the management strategies
and fishing rights of the Baor.
 DoF ensured the involvement of Baor management
authority to implement the management policies.
 Baor management authority was directly involved for
managing the Baor and to communicate with fishermen
community.
 Various NGOs were involved in providing training and
credit facilities to fishermen community to generate
alternative income sources to supplement fishing income

13. Problem associated with management:
 Different types of fertilizers and pesticides used in Baor adjacent
crop field.
 People living around Baor depend on Baor for bathing, cooking,
washing, and drinking.
 The number of fishers should not be so small that individual
benefits are envied by other rural poor, leading to mass poaching.
 Baor area decrease due to urbanization or industrialization.
 Fish production and fish fauna of the baor was being drastically
reduced due to environmental and human intervention such as over
fishing

14. Recommendation :
In the present study, the existing management system of
eight Oxbow lakes are reviewed. Water quality was
analyzed with reference to the longest lake, i.e. Lake
Baluhar. During the present study, >100cm transparency
indicated the suitability of a lake for cage culture.

15. Conclusion
 A total of 5488 ha of oxbow lakes in Bangladesh has
recently gained importance as a potential fishery
resources.
 The growing need to utilize the resource to fuller
potential requires consideration of cage culture by
resources- poor fishing communities as a compliment to
existing stock enhancement programmes.

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