Aquaculture America 2023

February 23 - 26, 2023

New Orleans, Louisiana USA

THE INTRA HOUSEHOLD FISH CONSUMPTION PATTERN IN BANGLADESH

Abhipsita Das, Prokash Deb, Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Madan Mohan Dey, Md Takibur Rahman

ooj13@txstate.edu

 



Global fisheries and aquaculture industry has been experiencing dramatic change in the demand and supply pattern in terms of fish sources and species during the last three decades. In particular, Bangladesh has been experiencing structural changes with sharp decline in inland capture fisheries and rise in inland culture based fish production affecting fish consumption pattern of different income groups and between rural and urban households. This study examines the fish consumption pattern in Bangladesh based on the Bangladesh National Income Expenditure Survey Data from 2000 to 2016. The study summarizes fish consumption pattern by fish sources, species and households’ residential status. In consistent to the earlier studies, the fish consumption has increased over time for every category of household- rural urban and income quantile. However, the lowest income quantile i.e., poorest household has experienced fastest growth in fish consumption.  Low value cultured fish species are highly demanded by the lowest income quantile, whereas high value cultured fishes are mainly consumed by the household in upper income quantile. Furthermore, a large share of fish consumption expenditure of lowest quantile households is for low value capture based small indigenous species and culture based catfish. In addition, marine fishes are mainly consumed by the urban and households in the upper income quantile. The findings indicate that culture based fisheries is contributing in improving fish consumption pattern irrespective of income groups and residential status of household especially of lowest income quantile.