Wildlife Biologist and Marine Conservationist
G M MASUM BILLAH / 2021
Working to sustain the Citizen Science and Fishermen Safety Network to further safeguard the lives of Hilsa fishermen, and to collect vital information on their fishing practices, and engage them in a participatory approach for protecting threatened marine megafauna like sharks, rays, marine turtles, dolphins and whales.
Working on also knowledge on the status, ecology, and trade of sharks and rays and sawfishes significantly improved through spatially-explicit catch and bycatch assessments, fish landing site surveys, targeted interviews with sharks and rays traders or fishers and consumers trend analysis. And constituencies built among fishers, fish traders and government officers for implementing measures to protect sharks and rays and to build up national plan of action and non-detriment findings for protecting sharks and rays in Bangladesh. Working closely with citizen science landing site data collector to collect sharks and rays catch and by catching information from the landing site. Working also citizen science ray fishermen to know their catch location and targeted species and their better livelihood . Working also marine protected areas management and sustainable ocean to secure better livelihood for the fishers. |
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Most of the sharks and rays are in global crisis due to the overfishing, unregulated, uncontrolled fishing and habitat loss. Saw fish is one of them and Sawfish fins are some of the most valuable for shark fin soup, and their rostra have long been traded as curios. In addition, they inhabit shallow coastal waters, estuaries, and rivers of the tropics and subtropics, down to a maximum depth rarely exceeding 100 m and are associated with threatened mangrove and seagrass habitats. Picture: Large-tooth sawfish (Pristis pristis)