SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES in the BAY of BENGAL a Signar Bengtson Sketchbook Cover:Afisherfolkfamilynearmadrasuseskattumaramsailsasshelterontheshore

SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES IN THE BAY OF BENGAL A Signar Bengtson Sketchbook Cover:AfisherfolkfamilynearMadrasuseskattumaramsailsasshelterontheshore.

For Fisheries Development BAY OF BENGAL PROGRAMME Small-Scale Fisherfolk Communities in the Bay of Bengal. Mailing Address: Post Bag No. 054. Madras-600 018. India. Street Address: 91 St Mary’s Road. Abhiramapuram. Madras-600 018. India. Cebles: FOODAGRI Telex : MS-311FISHPhones:71294,71296,71587,77760 DesignandlayoutbyBOBP.PrintedbyNagaraj&Co.,Madras600041. BengtsononBengtson: Aself-portrait

"My passion for boats began in school in the late 50s”, pices began in 1979 and terminated in 1986, In 1987, says Swedish artist Signar Bengtson, 49. I was a regular a new BOBP project began, funded jointly by DANIDA visitor to maritime museums where traditional boats and SIDA. Like the earlier project, the new one focuses were on display. I got familiar with their contours and on new methods and techniques concerning capture and features. . I now build and repair vintage craft for which culture technologies that will benefit small-scale fisher- peopleofEuropehaveanostalgicaffectionIrecently folk. There is a high emphasis on extension work — sailed from the southern tip of Sweden to Stockholm dealing particularly with women in fishing communities.

700 km away on a centuries-old boat, and made many BOBP has tackled — among other activities — finfish friends during the voyage. cage culture in Thailand; beachcraft development in Bengtsons boat models are found in several European India and Sri Lanka; credit for fisherfolk and their chil- museums. He is fond of traditional Asian and African dren in India; activities for fisherwomen in Bangladesh, boats too. In 1983, he attended a FAO sail consultation India and Sri Lanka; traditional gear improvement in organized in Madras under the auspices of the Bay of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; shrimp culture projects in Bengal Programme (BOBP). He subsequently toured the India, Bangladesh and Malaysia. region twice and acquainted himself with the BOBP’s The BOBP’s long-term goal is to improve the living work in India, Bangaladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Maldives standards of poor small-scale fishing communities in the and Thailand, Two calenders of Bengtsons sketches region. It requires, besides development work, a better brought out by BOBP have proved immensely popular. and more sympathetic awareness by peoples everywhere The sketches in this brochure reveal Bengtson’s deft and of the problems of these communities. Bengtson s work destinctive style as an artist, his keen eye for boat detail furthers such awareness. and Kis empathy with fishing communities. A word about the BOBP and small-scale fisheries. A Bay of Bengal Programme Lars O Engvall SIDA-funded FAQ-executed project under BOBP aus- Madras. India. March 1987 Programme Director

I.Boatbelongingtoafisheries cooperativenearPenang,Malaysia abouttostockacocklefaren. 2TraditionalfIshrrwomanftrn India. 3.Cageculture01finfishin PttangNga,Thailand. 4

4. TraditionaL cast-netfisherman. 5.StitchedboatsofPortoHovo, Tamil Nadu, India 6.Guardshedatcocklefarm 6

-PhangNag,Thailand. 5 7

9 7.Traderawaitsfishingboats atalandingcentre. 8.Thedhonitraditionalboat,at Male,Maldives. 9.Fishingboatsontheshore, Orissa, India. 10.Cagecultureoffinfishand transportboalinPhangNga. Thailand. 11.Kaltumaramsailingoutside Madras. 12.BOBPbeachcraftIND-20 sailingnearMadras. 11

13.Thetraditionaldinghyof Orissa,India, 14.Thedhoni,traditionalMal 14 divesboat, 15.Boatusedforcockleculture -PenanqMalaysia. 16.River Freighter Outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. I6 17 17.Traditionalfishingboatnear MedanIndonesia. 18.Kattumarambeingassem. bledsoutho[Madras.

Hi 19.BoatrepairnearMedan, Sumatra, Indonesia 20

20.ShrimpculturepensinKillai. TamilNadu,besidetransport canoe 21Cagecultureofseabassin PhangNga,Thailand 22.Kattumaramsailingnear Madras22 21 2 23.Madethmotorizedfishing boatandtraditionalboatinCitta gong,Bangladesh. 24.FishlandingcentreinSri Lanka. 25.CocklefishermeninPhang Nga,Thailand. 26.Dinghyontheshore—Bala. sore,Orissa,India. 27

27. Modern motorized fishing boat,Cox’sBazar,Bangladesh. 28.Dhoniundergoesrepairnear Mate, Maldives 29. Landing centre in Penang, Malaysia. 29 28.