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THE WorldFish Centre, Bangladesh and South Asia Office, have announced that they will be jointly hosting a major international conference on community based fisheries on March 6 and 7, together with the Department of Fisheries, Bangladesh.
The conference, which will be held in the Radisson Hotel, Dhaka, coincides with the end of a 10-year Department of Fisheries and WorldFish Center implemented research programme on community based and co-managed fisheries in Bangladesh, the Community Based Fisheries Management Projects, CBFM-1 and CBFM-2.
The conference is intended to bring the research results from these projects to a wider audience and share experiences with practitioners involved in similar programmes from other parts of the world.
Malcolm Dickson, Project Leader for the WorldFish Center said: “The CBFM project is ground breaking in many ways. It has taken 10 years of fisheries and socio-economic research in 120 lakes, river sections and floodplains to show that community based and co-managed approaches actually work. We have now been able to show conclusively that they have resulted in more productive and sustainable fisheries, while at the same time enhancing the livelihoods of many vulnerable people in wetland areas.”
He continued: “This has only been possible through the co-operation of a wide range of stakeholders, from the 130 registered community groups formed under the project to the 11 NGOs involved in building up their capacity, the Department of Fisheries, the WorldFish Center and the donors who supported the programme, the Ford Foundation for CBFM-1 and UK’s DFID for CBFM-2.”
The conference organisers warmly welcome anyone with an interest in co-managed and community managed fisheries to the March 6-7 meeting. The main theme will be to place the CBFM project in a global context. Speakers will include project staff, WorldFish Center specialists and invited guests from similar projects in other parts of the world.
For more information go to: http://www.cbfm-bd.org/conf.html
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