Freshwater Blues: The scarcity of freshwater fish resources in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal highlights alarming trends in inland capture fisheries

Chakraborty, Amitrajit (2023) Freshwater Blues: The scarcity of freshwater fish resources in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal highlights alarming trends in inland capture fisheries. Samudra Report (90). pp. 47-52. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

On a rainy day in August, when the availability of fisheries resources is high in the Teesta river here, Bimal Das returned from a four-hour fishing trip with only three kgof fish. While sorting the fish from the ice slabs, a dejected Das contemplated quitting fishing to looking for jobs elsewhere. All across the northern part of the Indian state of West Bengal, fishers like Das are faced with the dire crisis of fish scarcity, pushing them out of inland capture fisheries.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.ICSF1360
Keywords:	ICSF, Samudra Report, India, West Bengal, Inland Fisheries, Aquaculture, Capture Fisheries, Nutrition, Food Security, Small-Scale Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Income, Biodiversity, Fish Resources, Freshwater Fisheries, Dams, Pollution, Erosion, Sand Mining, National Platform for Small Scale Fish Workers (NPSSFW), Customary Rights, Climate Change, Impact
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Vivek D ICSF
Date Deposited:	03 May 2024 04:33
Last Modified:	03 May 2024 04:33
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20145

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