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Who owns the coast?: Fishery-tourism interaction in Saint Martin’s Island, Bangladesh

Md., Abdul Baten and Habib, Kazi Ahsan and Sultana, Rakiba and Mohammad, Mosarof Hossain (2021) Who owns the coast?: Fishery-tourism interaction in Saint Martin’s Island, Bangladesh. TBTI Global Publication Series . Too Big To Ignore, Canada.

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Abstract

Saint Martin’s Island is the only coral-bearing Island in Bangladesh that has a settlement of traditional small-scale fishers. In recent decades, the island became a tourist hotspot of Bangladesh, leading to competing interests in fisheries and tourism. While the expanding tourism industry helps local fishers in improving their livelihood by creating alternative income opportunities, the negative impacts of unregulated tourism and irresponsible tourist activities are now clearly visible through degradation of coral habitat, environmental pollution, and competition over coastal space between fishers and tourism entrepreneurs. Thus, small-scale fishers face competition in defending the coastal space and surrounding coral ecosystem on which they depend for their livelihoods and well-being. This study calls for restriction measures, such as assessing the carrying capacity of the island and implementing regulations for the protection of islands and surrounding coral ecosystems.

Item Type: Books
Keywords: Tourism, Saint Martin’s Island, Bangladesh, Small-scale Fisheries, Livelihoods, Corals, Environmental Pollution, Ecosystem
Subjects: Right to Resources
Depositing User: Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited: 18 Feb 2022 05:35
Last Modified: 18 Feb 2022 05:35
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13192

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