Sundarban is the largest mangrove reserve forest in the world. The forest resources dependent local people live in the Sundarban Impact Zone (SIZ). A large number of people of Sundarban Impact Zone have depended on fishing and related occupations. They have separate identity and traditional cultural or folklore. They are depended on the fishes of Sundarban for their livelihood. Every day or seasonally they go to Sundarban for catching fish and crab. One of the key targets of the study is to trace out how the fishermen people of Sundarban use their traditional knowledge and technique for fishing. Generally they use most wonderful indigenous method and indigenous technique for fishing. They use different type of nets and different kind of traps for fishing. Therefore it can easily be inferred that there is a vast body of indigenous knowledge on fishing among the fishermen communities in Sundarban. This knowledge includes the indigenous technology of fishing and indigenous understanding of environment.
Introduction :
West Bengal coast abounds in innumerable estuaries, creeks, mangrove swamps, tidal mudflats and brackish water bheries. It supports about 160 species of crabs. A good number of these crabs are edible while most of the other species are used in the fish-meal industries. Among the edible species, two widely recognized and abundantly available mud crabs species, Scylla serrata , popularly known as Nona Kankra, are considered as the most valued species in this region because of large size and high quality meat content. These two species are known to occur abundantly in brackishwater, wetlands, inter-tadal estuaries and mangrove swamps and are qauite adapted to withstand varying salinity and they are able to thrive to some extent on freshwater condition. They are widely cultured in several. South east Asian countries where they are extensively used in crab farming industry.
Bioecology of mud crab species : Habit and Habitat : Mud crabs are the largest and larger edible crabs respectively. They are commonly found along the coastal West Bengal as well as far inside in the brackishwater areas of the State. They inhabit mangrove swamps, tidal mudflats, brackishwater impoundments as well as in the rice fields of coastal West Bengal and abundantly encountered in Sundarban Coast.
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