In News: A new initiative of sustainable shrimp cultivation provides hope for mangrove restoration in Sundarbans.
SAIME:
The community-based initiative of sustainable shrimp cultivation is being conceived by NEWS and Global Nature Fund (GNF), Naturland Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS).
The initiative started in 2019, has established a collaborative ecosystem integrating several key stakeholders from government departments, academia, and research institutes for co-creation and comprehensive advancement of this project.
Farmers have taken up cultivation of shrimp in West Bengal including indigenous varieties of shrimps such as black tiger shrimp (P. monodon) and giantfreshwater prawn (M. rosenbergii ).
A research program on the contribution of mangrove leaf litter in the nutritional dynamics in SAIME ponds has been initiated in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Blue Economy (CoE-BE) of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata
Fishing, particularly shrimp cultivation, is one of the key occupations of the people of Sundarbans, which is a complex network of rivers and low-lying islands that face a tide surge twice a day.
Shrimp cultivation is practised in about 15,000 to 20,000 hectares of the unique ecosystem in India. T
The Sundarbans forest is about 10,000 sq. km across India and Bangladesh, of which 40% lies in India.
