Summary Report of Fishing Trials With Large-Mesh Driftnets in Bangladesh - BOBP/REP/30

This document reports on a fishing gear improvement project in Bangladesh. It describes the findings of fishing trials with large-mesh driftnets of thinner twine with different mesh sizes and made of different materials. Two working papers on the subject have been published earlier as BOBP/WP/5 (“Improvement of Large-Mesh Driftnets for Small-Scale Fisheries in Bangladesh”) and BOBP/WP/12 (“Trials in Bangladesh of Large-Mesh Driftnets of Light Construction”). Two other papers on Bangladesh f ishing gears have also been published : BOBP/WP/13 (“Trials of Two-Boat Bottom Trawling in Bangladesh”) and BOBP/WP/15 (“Pilot Survey of Driftnet Fisheries in Bangladesh”). The trials described in this paper started in 1979-80. They were conducted in cooperation with the Kalidaha Fishing Project of CARITAS, a social service organization, and the Marine Fisheries Department, Bangladesh, which provided local counterparts (Mr. T. K. Das, fishing technologist, and Mr. A. Bashiruddin, Assistant Inspector of Fisheries) for monitoring. A number of private fishermen also participated in the trials.