Table 3.
Socioeconomic characteristics of the fishers fishing in the selected sites of Hakaluki Haor (source: questionnaire survey).
| Socio-economic characteristics | Number of fishers |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barlekha | Juri | Kulaura | Fenchuganj | Golapganj | ||
| Age | Young age (15–30) | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| Middle age (31–50) | 17 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 16 | |
| Old age (51–65) | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | |
| Education | Illiterate | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
| Primary level | 14 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 18 | |
| Secondary | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
| Religion | Muslim | 11 | 21 | 22 | 17 | 13 |
| Hindu | 19 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 17 | |
| Gender | Male | 26 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Female | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Family status | Nuclear (≤4) | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Large (≥5) | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | |
| Occupation | Primary (Fishermen) | 27 | 28 | 25 | 26 | 22 |
| Secondary (Others) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | |
| Annual income | 30,000–50,000 (Ultra-poor) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 50,000–80,000 (Poor) | 8 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 16 | |
| 80,000–1,00000 (Moderately poor) | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | |
| 1,00000–150,000 (Lower middle class) | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| >150,000 (Middle class) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |