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Hilsa fish

16 entries

Preview of 16622IIED.pdf

Leave no one behind: Power and profits in hilsa fishery in Bangladesh: a value chain analysis

Publication, 01 December 2016

Preview of 16619IIED.pdf

Balancing carrots and sticks: incentives for sustainable hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh

Publication, 01 April 2016

Plastic boxes containing fish and ice

Hilsa fish essential to Myanmar local nutrition and livelihoods, and needs protecting

News, 11 November 2019

Fishing boats on the Bay of Bengal

Cooperation vs. competition over shared fish stocks

Insight, 23 April 2019

Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh

Active Project

A fisher in a boat in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

Carrots and sticks: incentives to conserve hilsa fish in Myanmar

Archived Project

Hilsa fish at a wholesaler fish market in Dhaka (Photo: Ina Porras/IIED)

The hilsa fishing ban: good for the fish, but good for the fisher?

Insight, 28 February 2017

An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks

News, 06 May 2016

A hilsa, the national fish of Bangladesh. Inadequate government compensation during periods when fishing is banned has a harsh economic consequence for families (Photo: BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat, Creative Common, via Flickr)

Forced to sell the roof over their heads

Insight, 04 April 2016

Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table

Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh

Archived Project

Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Conservation trust fund proposed to help manage Bangladesh fish stocks

News, 25 June 2015

Bangladeshi fishers with debts must repay loans even when fishing is banned, resulting in illegal fishing activities (Photo: John Pavelka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Idris bhai, your voice has been heard!

Insight, 24 March 2015

Government officials and researchers discuss the future of hilsa management on 19 January (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)

UK's Darwin Initiative funded project strives to reduce threats to hilsa fish

News, 19 January 2015

Fishermen along the Meghna Rover (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)

Want to know how to save a fish species? Ask a fisher

Insight, 08 June 2014

Fishermen collecting the day's catch

Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing

Archived Project

Men and women fish off the island of Padma Pakur. Image by Espen Rasmussen/PANOS

Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish

News, 28 May 2013

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