Management Practices of Charchariya Fishery, West Bengal

In the present paper, a case study of cooperative as well as fisheries management practices of Charchariya fishery is presented along with a profile of the fishery system. The Charchariya Fishermen Cooperative Society (CFCS) assures year-round employment to all its 146 members, while this sewage-fed fishery management system supports multiple benefits to the local people through low cost and near natural purification of sewage waste water. In general, this fishery system appears to be one of the highly productive piscicultural ecosystems in West Bengal.