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Fisheries secy suggests compulsory EIA to protect fish habitat
Fisheries Secretary Syed Marghub Murshed yesterday said aquatic life has been adversely affected and his ministry Is now considering Introduction of compulsory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to protect the country's fish habitat and all waterbodies for achieving a ‘silver revolution’.
Talking to BSS. the new Fisheries Secretary emphasised on the need for setting up of an EIA Cell In the Fisheries Ministry to help boost fish production. creation of employment, generation of income and raise export earnings by pursuing sustainable development in an eco-friendly way.
Marghub. who in his previous post as the Environment Secretary had communicated in a visible way to the nation the need to conserve the fragile nature and avert the ever-deteriorating environment, also underscored the need for developing both inland and marine fisheries.
He favoured integration of environment with the fisheries sector and said environment is an emerging science and everybody has a stake in It. Environmental issues are cross-cutting and do have national, regional and global dimension.
He said given the small manpower of the ministry, il has to rely on the technical know-how of different Institutions of repute as no single ministry or agency can solve alone • he complex environmental problems.
We have to put In place a collet five, coordinated and pragmatic efforts to help sort < < our environmental prob-
lems in general and problems of the fisheries sector in particular. We have to try to bring together the bodies of civil society and various stakeholders as allies of the ministry in a progressive clean-up effort." he told BSS.
The Fisheries Secretary favoured to bring not only in the forefront the green' and brown' issues at the highest level of decision-making but also institutionalise public participation in environmental decision-taking process.
He said, "we have seen very positive and wide-ranging results of our efforts at the Environment Ministry, not only in terms of public participation, Increased awareness and the Save Buriganga Campaign, and ( lean Dhaka s Air.' but also in helping to bring about longterm improvement of our ecologically critical areas.
Marghub said it can very clearly be demonstrated that ordinary people — men. women and young people alike — have Il In their hands to contribute substantially to a better quality of lite for I hemselves ami I heir communities, especially the fishermen.
"We have stewarded Bangladesh's globally acclaimed National Environment Management Action Plan (NEMAP) at people's consultative unique formulation phase and also piloted the execution ol its follow-up Sustainable Environ men t Manage men I Programme (SEMP) In the Environment Ministry. We can replicate that globally-acclaimed model In Ilie Fisheries Ministry,” he added.