Bioeconomics of Commercial Marine Fisheries of Bay of Bengal: Status and Direction

Table 1

Total catch and effort data of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, from Fish trawlers. (Source: Statistics of Marine Fisheries Department, Chittagong, Bangladesh).

Year	Number of trawlers	Catch (tonnes)	Effort (days)	CPUE
1985-1986	14	5500	1783	3.085
1986-1987	18	4769	2351	2.028
1987-1988	19	4393	2331	1.885
1988-1989	8	931	617	1.509
1989-1990	8	2105	990	2.126
1990-1991	12	1532	721	2.125
1991-1992	14	1974	1421	1.389
1992-1993	12	2545	1545	1.647
1993-1994	11	3305	1228	2.691
1994-1995	14	4404	1354	3.253
1995-1996	12	4568	1432	3.19
1996-1997	14	5793	1656	3.498
1997-1998	13	7515	1856	4.049
1998-1999	18	6680	2136	3.127
1999-2000	21	8017	2517	3.185
2000-2001	31	16027	3871	4.14
2001-2002	36	16586	4841	3.426
2002-2003	42	19428	5414	3.588
2003-2004	49	23207	6284	3.693
2004-2005	68	25895	8535	3.034
2005-2006	78	27096	11469	2.363
2006-2007	88	29446	11462	2.569
2007-2008	95	29176	13368	2.183