Livelihood Assessment of a Jatka Fishing Community at North Srirumthi Village, Chandpure, Bangladesh

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In Bangladesh about 1.2 million people are directly employed and another 10 million people indirectly earn their livelihood out of activities related to fisheries. An attempt was made for livelihood assessment of fisherman community at the village of North Srirumthi, Chandpure district in Bangladesh. The information was collected through community and focus group discussions, social mapping, wealth ranking, Venn diagram, historical time lines, transects, case studies and key informant interviews at Union Parishad members and Upazila level officers. The livelihood assets, vulnerability context, livelihood outcomes and strategies and poverty sensitive issues of jatka fishing community of North Srirumthi village, Chandpur has been identified and discussed. Some recommendations were also made to improve the livelihoods of jatka fishing community as well as to increase the hilsha production from the River Meghna.

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