This handbook outlines the objectives, organisation and history behind the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010. It also contains abstracts of the keynote addresses, plenary lectures, expert panel presentations and posters.
This guide provides short biographies of persons who made presentations at the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, to give participants an idea of the expertise that this conference attempted to bring together. The biographies are arranged sequentially in conformity with the conference programme.
Various measures for resource enhancement, conservation and management have been tried in Bangladesh in order to prevent the decline of fisheries resources. The needs of Bangladesh’s poor fisher community to eat what they catch and lack of a legal legislative framework means this situation can only worsen. Hope is offered by new conservation initiatives including habitat restoration, enhancement of depleting fish stocks, transferral of fishing rights and establishment of fish sanctuaries at strategic points.
India produces 4.6 million tonnes of fish annually from its inland water bodies, of which 1 million tonnes originates from enhancement and capture fisheries of open waters. Reservoirs of all categories together produce 94,000 tonnes of fish against a potential of nearly 1 million tonnes. Ownership of inland water bodies vests with the government and the fishing rights of reservoirs and beels are given to individuals, groups and communities according to norms that vary across the states.
