Fishing Effort and It’s Impact on Fisher’s Economy: A Case Study of Chandakhal Wetland, Dhubri, Assam, India

Abstract

Fishing effort is the number of days a fisher goes for fishing in the waterbody. The present study enquires about the impact of fishing effort on the fishing economy of the fishers associated with Chandakhal wetland of Dhubri, Assam, India. It is an analytical study based on the data collected through interviews and personal observation. The respondents of the study are the fulltime fisher men (40 numbers out of total 43 numbers) dependent on the wetland. The observation comprises finding of 70% of the respondents having fishing efforts varying between 151 – 200 fishing days and 30% has 201 – 250 fishing days. The summary statistics of the data of annual fishing days calculates the mean fishing day as 187. The regression analysis considering the Annual per capita fishing income as dependent variable and the Annual fishing days as the independent variable, the coefficient of correlation (R) is found to be 0.275 and coefficient of determination (R2) is found to be 0.075. The result is considered not significant (P = 0.086). It can be said that only 7.5% of the variation in the Annual per capita income is expressed by fishing effort in terms of the Annual fishing days in the present study.