Conference Name:Fisheries Governance: Transboundary Cooperation between Bangladesh and India
Date: 21-01-2021
Abstract: India has the fourth largest freshwater surface area in the world, an area of about 314,070 km2 or 9.55% of the country. Freshwater resources cover 7% (10,080 km2) of the total area of Bangladesh.
• Inland waters comprise river systems, upland lakes, reservoirs, freshwater ponds, floodplain wetlands, lagoons, brackish water ponds, and estuaries and estuarine wetlands.
• India and Bangladesh share 54 rivers – the Ganges- Brahmaputra-Meghna are the main transboundary river systems…
