Abstract
The cell phone can provide numerous benefits to sea fishers who risk their lives and resources for making livelihoods. This article is based on the firm assumption that the use of the cell phone during marine fishing can contribute to income, security and risk reduction. This study adds to the empirical evidence of determinants of cell phone use by fishers during marine fishing. For the purpose of reaching objectives, the study has drawn quantitative data generated through structured face-to-face interviews with 200 randomly selected fishers from three selected villages adjacent to the Bay of Bengal in the mid coastal area of Bangladesh during the period January to February 2016. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and binary logistic regression model is used to analyze the data. The study concludes that fishers own cell phone (odds ratio[OR]=6.56, 95 per cent confidence interval [CI]: 1.69,25.44), enjoying the availability of cell phone network (OR=166.20, 95 per cent CI:38.35, 720.28), earned low (OR=20.35, 95 per cent CI:4.24, 97.28) to medium income (OR=9.53, 95 per cent CI:0.99, 91.12) form sea fishing have a greater tendency to use cell phones, while fishers had low information need (OR=0.11, 95 per cent CI:0.01, 1.13) represented lower use of cell phone during marine fishing. Thus, it is essential to build cell phone infrastructure bases in the potential fishing zones of Bangladesh and supplying cell phone devices at subsidised cost.
Highlights
IntroductionLarge Marine Ecosystem (LMEs), and eventually the sea water of Bangladesh is endowed with 475 species of fishes, 36 species of shrimps, 5 species of lobsters, more than 15 species of crabs, 5 species of tortoise, and 15 species of coral
The marine fisheries sector is considered as an important sector of the economy ofLarge Marine Ecosystem (LMEs), and eventually the sea water of Bangladesh is endowed with 475 species of fishes, 36 species of shrimps, 5 species of lobsters, more than 15 species of crabs, 5 species of tortoise, and 15 species of coral
This study aimed to examine the predictors of the use of cellphone during marine fishing in some selected villages in adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal
Summary
Large Marine Ecosystem (LMEs), and eventually the sea water of Bangladesh is endowed with 475 species of fishes, 36 species of shrimps, 5 species of lobsters, more than 15 species of crabs, 5 species of tortoise, and 15 species of coral. In 2014-2015, 16.28% of the total produced fish in the country came from sea fisheries sector (Humayan & Barua, 2016). This sector offers livelihood for a significant section of people in the country. Natural hazards and technological failure have turned sea fishing to a risky profession since a long period of time (Smith, 1998). Incidence of frequent pirate attack is a recent addition to the risks of sea fishing, cost sizeable amount of lives and resources (Rider, 2015; Financial Express, 2016; Pandey, 2015)
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