Projecting marine fish production and catch potential in Bangladesh in the 21st century

Under long-term environmental change and management scenarios

Abstract

The fisheries sector is crucial to the Bangladeshi economy and wellbeing, accounting for 4.4% of national gross domestic product and 22.8% of agriculture sector production, and supplying ca. 60% of the national animal protein intake. Fish is vital to the 16 million Bangladeshis living near the coast, a number that has doubled since the 1980s. Here, we develop and apply tools to project the long-term productive capacity of Bangladesh marine fisheries under climate and fisheries management scenarios, based on downscaling a global climate model, using associated river flow and nutrient loading estimates, projecting high-resolution changes in physical and biochemical ocean properties, and eventually projecting fish production and catch potential under different fishing mortality targets.

This research was supported by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme

Citation

Fernandes, J.A., Kay, S., Hoassain, M.A.R., Ahmed, M., Cheung, W.W.L., Lázár, A.N., Barange, M., Projecting marine fish production and catch potential in Bangladesh in the 21st century under long-term environmental change and management scenarios, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2015

Projecting marine fish production and catch potential in Bangladesh in the 21st century under long-term environmental change and management scenarios

Published 1 January 2015