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FACTORS AFFECTING FISH-FARMERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMMUNITY MANAGED FISHERIES IN DINAJPUR DISTRICT (Pages : 40 - 46)

The purposes of the study were to ascertain the attitude of the fish-farmers towards community managed fisheries and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the fish-farmers and their attitude towards community managed fisheries (CMF). Determination of the contribution and the direct and indirect effects of the selected characteristics of the fish-farmers to their attitude towards CMF were other purposes of this study. The study was conducted in three upazilas of Dinajpur district. Data were collected from randomly selected 94 fish-farmers, (20 percent of the population of 470) from 04 April 2015 to 17 May 2015. Eleven selected characteristics (i.e. age, educational qualification, family size, farm size, farming experience, annual family income, training exposure, duration of involvement in CMF, participation in CMF, knowledge of CMF and constraints faced in CMF) of the fish-farmers constituted the independent variables where fish-farmer’s attitude towards the CMF was the dependent variable of the study. The attitude of the fish-farmers towards CMF was examined with 5 point Likert scale. The findings revealed that the majority of the fish-farmers (61.7 percent) had ‘highly favorable’ attitude towards CMF while 20.2 percent and 18.1 percent had ‘slightly favorable’ and ‘moderately favorable’ attitude towards CMF, respectively. Among eleven selected characteristics of the respondents ‘educational qualification’, ‘training exposure’, ‘duration of involvement in CMF’, ‘participation in CMF’ and ‘knowledge of CMF’ had positive significant relationship with their attitude, while the ‘constraints faced in CMF’ had negative significant relationship. Fish-farmers’ ‘constraints faced in CMF’ had found the highest predictive power to their attitude towards CMF followed by duration of involvement in CMF and knowledge of CMF. Download