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The presentation of Essam Yassin Mohammed, a researcher with IIED's Sustainable Markets Group, to the IIED-hosted Innovations for equity in smallholder PES: bridging research and practice conference. The presentation, made within the second session on new research to improve understanding of participants' preferences for different PES payment formats, focused on direct economic incentives for sustainable fisheries management in Bangladesh. More information on Mohammed's work: http://pubs.iied.org/16527IIED.html. The conference took place at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh on 21 March. Further details of the conference and IIED's work with PES are available via http://www.iied.org/conference-innovations-for-equity-smallholder-pes-highlights, and can be found via the Shaping Sustainable Markets website: http://shapingsustainablemarkets.iied.org/
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Essam Yassin MohammedInternational Institute for Environment and Development
Assessing Preferences for Compensation Packages: The case of Hilsa conservation in Bangladesh
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Marine and Costal Ecosystem Services
• Major source of food: the main or only source of animal protein in some poor communities
• Some 45 million directly employed
• Up to 200 mill indirectly
• The most traded food commodity
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Author nameDateAuthor nameDateFisheries in crisis
20% moderately exploited
1% on track to recovery
52% fully exploited
19% over exploited
8% depleted80%
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Fisheries management regimes
No take zones
Off season
Fishing gear restriction
Limited licensing
Allowable catches
Economic incentives
Short-term economic and social cost
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Ways that economic incentives can be added to existing regulatory schemes
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Case study: Payments for Hilsa conservation in Bangladesh
- Anadromous fish - Bangladesh accounts for
about 60% of total hilsa catch in the Bay of Bengal
- 11% of total fish catch in Bangladesh
- 1% of GDP- Up to 2.5 mill people
along the supply chain (processing, marketing, transporting)
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Hilsa fishery is under threat
- Overfishing- Damming and river
diversion- Pollution - Climate change
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Hilsa sanctuaries in the Lower Meghna Estuary
‘Hilsa fisheries management action plan’ 2003- Jatka (juvenile
hilsa) protection- Conservation of
gravid hilsa- 5 hilsa sanctuaries- No take season
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Incentive-based management
Incentive-based
manag’t
30kg rice/hh/monthAIGAs (e.g. sewing
machines)Some cash
Jatka: Nov – MayBrood: 5 days before and after the full moon in the month of Ashvin (October)
Hilsa sanctuaries
Jatka conservation week: today’s jatka,
tomorrow’s hilsaTV, Radio, Print, boat
rallies, meetings, workshops
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Author nameDateAuthor nameDateAssessing preferences
- FGDs with 147 HH reps in 4 districts – Chandpur, Ramgati, Bhola, and Kalapara
- More preference for rice - 50kg of rice (not 30kg, why?)- Some cash (up to
TK2000/month)- Divergence between
preferences and compensation packages (e.g. sewing machine)
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Author nameDateAuthor nameDateDistributional implications
Priority given to the “needy”
Inclusion and exclusion errors
ID cards for hilsa fishers and more accountability
Intra-household distributional implications
Impact on the local economy (small business owners)
Middlemen Labourers at landing sites
(30%)
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Author nameDateAuthor nameDateTackling systemic constraints
- Freeze repayment period during the ban period
- Access to microcredit (Aratdars – wholesalers and money lenders)
- Tackle piracy - Banning the ‘production’ of
destructive fishing gears (e.g. monofilament net)
- Effective policing and enforcement
- Involving the army during cash/food handouts (3rd party)
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Next step: choice experiment“who prefers what and why?”
- 800 households- 120 permutations - 5 attributes- Preferences for
compensation packages
- Implicit discount rate- Methodological
issues
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