Govt to preserve treasury of marine fisheries resources
Thursday, 9 August 2007
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Aug 08: The government is pledge bound to preserve the treasury of marine fisheries resources of the country and as such trying to formulate a proper and time befitting guideline for extracting the fisheries resources on obtaining concrete suggestions from the concerned quarters.
Joint Secretary for the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Prakishmit Dutta Chowdhury expressed the above views in a seminar on 'Formulating Recommendation on Extracting Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal' organised by the Bangladesh Marine Fisheries Association (BMFA) at Chittagong Zila Parishad auditorium here recently.
Other who spoke at the seminar included BMFA President AK Shamsuddin Khan, Mahmudul Karim, Ziauddin Khan, Md Jafar and Md Mozaffar Hossain.
Chowdhury sought whole-hearted cooperation and concrete suggestions of the concerned quarters for drafting a time befitting package of guideline.
The speakers at the seminar expressed their concerns on the decaying of the unbounded fisheries resources in the Bay as there is no specific guideline for preserving the same.
Unplanned extraction of fish, permitting excess trawlers, without conducting any survey, use of destructive equipments for fishing, catching fish during egg laying season and causing damages to the breeding fields of the fish, were mentioned as causes for the gradual destruction of the marine fisheries resources.
If the abovementioned problems were addressed seriously the existing fisheries resources can be exported abroad after meeting local demands enabling the country to earn huge amount of foreign currencies, the speakers said.
CHITTAGONG, Aug 08: The government is pledge bound to preserve the treasury of marine fisheries resources of the country and as such trying to formulate a proper and time befitting guideline for extracting the fisheries resources on obtaining concrete suggestions from the concerned quarters.
Joint Secretary for the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Prakishmit Dutta Chowdhury expressed the above views in a seminar on 'Formulating Recommendation on Extracting Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal' organised by the Bangladesh Marine Fisheries Association (BMFA) at Chittagong Zila Parishad auditorium here recently.
Other who spoke at the seminar included BMFA President AK Shamsuddin Khan, Mahmudul Karim, Ziauddin Khan, Md Jafar and Md Mozaffar Hossain.
Chowdhury sought whole-hearted cooperation and concrete suggestions of the concerned quarters for drafting a time befitting package of guideline.
The speakers at the seminar expressed their concerns on the decaying of the unbounded fisheries resources in the Bay as there is no specific guideline for preserving the same.
Unplanned extraction of fish, permitting excess trawlers, without conducting any survey, use of destructive equipments for fishing, catching fish during egg laying season and causing damages to the breeding fields of the fish, were mentioned as causes for the gradual destruction of the marine fisheries resources.
If the abovementioned problems were addressed seriously the existing fisheries resources can be exported abroad after meeting local demands enabling the country to earn huge amount of foreign currencies, the speakers said.