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The sustainability of open water fisheries in Bangladesh is threatened by increasing fishing pressure, and loss of wetlands. The traditional fisheries management system in Bangladesh is for the government to lease out fishing rights. This has not limited exploitation to sustainable levels to achieve an equitable distribution of returns. The comparative analysis of approaches of different projects are implemented in Bangladesh helps to know the sustainability of co-management and performance of the Community Based Organisations are constrained by a lack of clearly defined benefit utilization, a mismatch between resource scale and management initiatives. Although the difference in catch per unit area (CPUA) is not significant (p0.05) but, Per capita fish consumption was significantly higher (p

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Ashitava Halder Manager, Strategic Planning (Research and Monitoring) Center for Natural Resource Studies Commonwealth Scholar M.Sc. Aquatic Resource Development, Stirling University - Institute of Aquaculture, Stirling, UK M.Sc. Statistics, Chittagong University, Bangladesh Specialized in Monitoring and Evaluation and Natural Resource Management

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