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Cage fish culture has a bright prospect in Bangladesh |
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October 17, 2000
Dhaka-- (UNB) - Cage fish culture has a bright prospect in Bangladesh as in many Asian countries, experts told a workshop here yesterday. They said the technology is suitable for the rural poor because it requires only access to a water body and limited cash cost. Dr Goutan Barua and Dr Luke A Colavito, Kenny McAndrew and Dr Jean-Yues Mevel presented two keynote papers in the workshop titled 'Expansion of Cage Fish Aquaculture Systems'. Bangladesh Rural Enterprise And Agricultural Development Project (BREAD) and CAGES Project of CARE-Bangladesh jointly organised the workshop at BRAC Centre. For the people of Bangladesh fish is a crucial source of animal protein accounting for over 50 per cent of all animal protein consumed, and it's the major source of protein for the rural poor, the experts said in their papers. They said production of larger fish for wholesale markets through commercial cage system is not currently profitable but would be viable in near future with return of Tk 2,300 every year per cage. According to their feasibility study, some 15-20 million people of the country work either full or part-time in fisheries contributing 3.3 per cent to GDP and employing 5 per cent of the total workforce. They said return to family labour and management from a single one square-metre cage producing Tilapia fish will be over Tk 2,400 a year. "However, the technology faces limitations. Production should be located in areas with available inputs for feed and in a location where the production of small fish can be marketed locally," the study said. It found production of cage fish with commercial feed and local management only marginally profitable with return of Tk 890 per cage a year. |