Bay of bengal project

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Bay of Bengal project

The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the north-eastern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma (Myanmar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.

The Bay of Bengal occupies an area of 2,172,000 km².

A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, the Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna and Meghna.

The Bay of Bengal is a salt water sea and is a part of the Indian Ocean

BOBP is an inter-government organisation.

It evolved from FAO of united nations.

Started in the year 1994.

Goal and programmes Goal: to connect the member countries to

knowledge,experiance & resource to help theire folks to build a better life.

Programmes:

Regional program on safety at sea for artisanal & small scale fisherman

Regional programmes for fish stock assessments in bay of Bengal.

Capacity building &information services for fisheries develop and management BOB region.

Taking the code of conduct for responsible fisheries to the grass root level.

Geography Location: Northern Indian Ocean.

It is encompassed by the nations of:India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.

Length: 2,090 km

Width: 1,610 km

Surface Area: 3,660,130 km sq.

Average Depth: 2,600 meters

Max Depth: 4,694 meters

The city of Visakhapatnam in India, is a major port of Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) is a multiagency regional fisheries programme

which covers seven countries around the Bay of Bengal — Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Shri Lanka and Thailand.

The Programme plays a catalytic and consultative role: it develops, demonstrates and promotes new technologies, methodologies and ideas to help improve the conditions of small-scale fisher folk communities in member countries.

The BOBP is sponsored by the governments of Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and also by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).

The main executing agency is the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).

objectives The objective was to assess the problems of

environmental degradation in the coastal ecosystems in the Bay of Bengal by reviewing the existing information, analyzing available data and collating it all as a fundamental information base.

In the long-term, the project could result in recommendations for coordinated activities in the countries as well as the region to achieve sustainable productivity from the coastal ecosystems and reduce the negative effects on the fisheries resources.

The Project has five components 1. Strategic Action Programme

2. Coastal/Marine Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Use:

1. Community-based integrated coastal management -stock-taking/lesson learning of information and experience for promotion of community-based, fisheries and habitat management; co-management; and alternative livelihoods among fisher communities in the region

2. Improved policy harmonization – obtaining a better

understanding of the policy processes and enhanced

capacity in the formulation of policy, regional

exchange of information on policy and legislation.

3. Collaborative regional fishery assessments and

management plans – developing collaborative

regional fishery assessments, regional and sub-

regional management plans, and harmonization of

data collection and standardization to promote collaborative fisheries management approaches.

4. Collaborative critical habitat management -promoting multi-national approaches to manage and address issues affecting transboundary coastal/marine ecosystems within the broader BOB region.

3. Improved Understanding and Predictability of the BOB Environment:Marine Protected Areas in the conservation of regional fish Stocks – obtaining consensus on approaches to the establishment and management of marine protected areas and fish refugia for sustainable fish management and biodiversity conservation objectives

4. Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and Management of Pollution:

Coastal pollution loading and water quality criteria Development of a regional collaborative approach to identifying important coastal water pollution issues and to develop remedial strategies

5. Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Knowledge Management:

Monitoring and evaluation system - establishing a cost-effective monitoring and evaluation system in conformity with existing FAO and World Bank policies and procedures.