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FISH - GIS

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND REMOTE SENSING IN FISHERIES MONITORING, ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT

 

 

Gertjan de Graaf, Md Giassudin Khan, Md. Omar Faruk, Lubna Yasmin & Abdullah-Al Mamun

Dhaka - Bangladesh

November - 2000

 

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Environment and GIS Support Project for Water Sector Planning (EGIS II)

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and

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© EGIS, Bangladesh and NEFISCO, the Netherlands

Date of Publication

November 2000

  

EGIS Library Catalogue

G.J. de Graaf, M.G. Khan, M. O. Faruk. L. Yasmin, A. A. Mamun 2000. FISH–GIS, An introduction to the use of Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing in fisheries monitoring. EGIS Publication 2000-1, 184 pp.

  1. GIS and remote sensing
  2. Training
  3. Fisheries
  4. Predictive modelling
  5. Fish stock assessment
  6. Socio economics

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction

1.1 Set up of the training and the manual

1.2 The Training

2 What is GIS

3 A quick look at the start-up of Arcview

3.1 Starting Arcview

3.1.1 Structure of a Project, What is a project

3.1.2 Structure of a Project

3.2 Some Tools in View

3.3 Graphical displays in the Map View

3.3.1 Changing colours or the legend

3.3.2 Changing the number of classes in a legend

3.3.3 Selecting and applying bar or pie graphs

3.3.4 Displaying two parameters in one theme

3.3.5 Exercise 1: Rural and urban population

3.3.6 Exercise 2: Riverine frame survey

3.4 Views and Themes: definitions and characteristics

3.4.1 Polygons

3.5 Joining data with location on a map

3.6 Exercises: Joining Tables with Themes

3.6.1 Exercise 1: Riverine catch data joining with a polygon shape file

3.6.2 Exercise 2: Making your own data table, joining and editing

3.6.3 Exercise 3: Difference between polygon and point shape files

3.6.4 Exercise 4: Riverine frame survey data joining with point shape file

3.6.5 Facultative Exercise 5: Repeat it with small and large boats.

4 Point Shape Files

4.1 Characteristics of point shape files

4.1.1 How to get geo references

4.2 Exercises: Making point shape files

4.2.1 Exercise1: Inland riverine fishing Villages in Bagherhat District

4.2.2 Exercise 2: Sampling stations of salinity levels in the coastal area

4.2.3 Exercise 3: Adding the number of boats to the marine villages

4.3 Graphical displays of point shape files and the creation of contour line plots.

5 DATA plots and GIS Analysis

5.1 Contours salinity lines versus surface plots

6 Grid files

6.1 Grid file characteristics

6.2 Spatial Analyst

6.3 How to set your defaults for the use of Spatial analyst

7 Surface Plots

7.1 How the interpolation of the data works

7.2 How to make a surface plot

7.2.1 CPP water level surface plot: An example

7.3 How to set the boundary or a mask in a GIS analysis

7.3.1 CPP water level surface plot: An example with boundaries set

7.4 Exercises: Surface plots

7.4.1 Riverine catch statistics

7.4.2 Salinity levels in the coastal areas

8 Calculation with grids USIN GIS

8.1 Map calculations

8.1.1 Reclassifying

8.1.2 Querying

8.2 Exercises

8.2.1 Exercise: Calculate the shrimp farming area in the different salinity zones without a computer

8.2.2 Exercise 2: Calculate areas of shrimp farming in different salinity zones in Arcview.

8.3 Digital elevation model

9 Floodplain fisheries monitoring and GIS

9.1 Basic principles of habitat stratified floodplain fisheries monitoring

9.2 Stratification or criteria and principles.

9.2.1 Land types

9.3 Habitat stratified monitoring

9.4 Data analysis and estimation of annual catch

9.4.1 Determination of catch per unit of area

9.5 Exercises

9.6 Determination of monthly inundated areas or monthly flood maps

9.7 Exercises

9.7.1 Fish catch in the CPP for two scenarios

10 Further Application of Habitat stratified monitoring and the use of GIS in Bangladesh

10.1 Radar

10.1.1 Exercise: Radar Image flood mapping per Land type

10.2 Direct application of yields on land types

10.2.1 Exercises: Direct application of annual yield on Tangail district

11 Comparison of Fisheries and Agriculture in CPP, a multi disciplInary approach.

11.1 Fish losses

11.2 Agricultural benefits

11.2.1 Exercise: Calculate the agriculture production for the two scenarios of CPP

11.3 Total losses and benefits of the two scenarios for CPP

11.4 Who get the profits and who gets the losses

11.4.1 Exercise: Calculate distribution of losses and benefits over the different social strata in CPP

12 Marine fisheries

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Marine fisheries and GIS

12.2.1 Exercise 1; Shrimp fisheries by Estuarine Set Bag nets in the coastal zone

12.2.2 Exercise 2: Shrimp and fish trawling in the off shore waters of the Bay of Bengal

12.2.3 Exercise 3: Cephalopod catches

12.2.4 Facultative exercise 4: Fish biomass distribution in the BoB in relation to waterdepth

13 A rapid Fish bio-diversity appraisal for floodplain ecosystems.

13.1 Changing species composition in Garinda and Ghotokbari Beel in the CPP project area

13.2 Changing fish species composition in Bangladesh in relation to water management

13.3 Exercise: Bio-diversity rapid appraisal

14 Larval Fish densities in the major rivers

14.1 GIS and hatchling distribution

14.1.1 Exercise: GIS-Hatchlings

14.1.2 Results of the exercise.

15 Tools for fisheries analysis and management

15.1 Holistic models

15.1.1 The basics

15.1.2 A Schaefer curve for shrimp trawling in the Bay of Bengal

15.1.3 Modified surplus production models that could be used in Bangladesh

15.1.4 Exercises: Schaefer curves

15.2 Analytical models

15.2.1 Steps in length based stock assessment

15.3 Examples of the CPP project

15.3.1 Catch and Effort in CPP

15.3.2 Growth from the length- based stock assessment programme of CPP

15.3.3 Mortality rates from the length-based stock assessment program

16 ANNEX 1: Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting and Mapping Aquaculture Ponds in Bangladesh

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Materials and Methods

16.2.1 Study Area and Field Survey

16.2.2 Remote Sensing

16.3 results

16.3.1 Field data on ponds

16.3.2 Merging

16.3.3 Pond size detected with remote sensing

16.3.4 Costs

16.4 Conclusions

16.5 References

16.6 Acknowledgements

17 ANNEX 2; PREDICTIVE IMPACT MODELING WITH HYDROLOGICAL MODELS AND GIS

17.1 The Compartmentalisation Pilot Project

17.2 Modelling of fisheries in Bangladesh

17.3 The CPP model

17.3.1 Hydrological module

17.3.2 GIS module

17.3.3 Fisheries module

17.3.4 Agriculture module

17.3.5 Economic module

17.3.6 Socio-economic module.

17.4 Results

17.4.1 Shift in water and land

17.4.2 Production and value

17.4.3 Socio-economics aspects

17.5 Conclusions and recommendations for future developments

18 Acknowledgments

19 References and suggested further Literature