Fisheries Study Archive

Fisheries Organization in Bangladesh

Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
INTRODUCTION Bangladesh is fortunate enough having an extensive and huge water resources scattered all over the country in the form of small ponds, beels (natural depressions), lakes, canals, haors, baors, small and large rivers and estuaries covering an area of about 4.34 million ha. Fisheries...
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Traceability: The Basic Idea

Posted on February 1, 2010 | 60 Comments
INTRODUCTION Traceability is widely promoted as being desirable and a requirement in modern agriculture, driven predominantly by current concerns over international food safety scares (Opara, 2003; Zaske, 2003). The increasing global trade of foods and animal feeds has to be channeled in right directions to...
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VALUE-ADDED FISHERY PRODUCTS IN BANGLADESH

Posted on January 22, 2010 | 53 Comments
INTRODUCTION There are several factors that explain the choice to add value to products. On one hand, producers and exporters aim at satisfying the increasing demand for value-added products from consumers, aided by demographic and economic changes. At the same time, governments of countries with...
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QUALITY OF RAW MATERIALS FOR INDUSTRIAL FISH PROCESSING

Posted on January 18, 2010 | 21 Comments
INTRODUCTION Post-harvest technology is a multidisciplinary science. It refers to various treatments and unit operations carried out on harvested crops for the purpose of preservation or enhancement of quality by eliminating avoidable losses. The important areas of post-harvest technology is the familiarization with major crops,...
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