An Enquiry into the Contribution of the Fish Marketing and Distribution System to Economic Indicators in the Khulna City of Bangladesh

Abstract

A number or wholesale and retail fish markets in Khulna city were studied on quantitative and qualitative data collected at each. The qualitative data included a description of the market and the traders operating in it. The typical nature of indebtedness. and any associations or co-operatives based at the market. The quantitative data included information on the number of traders and their costs, business revenues and net incomes. In the Khulna fish distribution chain the aratdars. the commission agents who organise the wholesale markets may be able to collude to control the passage of fish through the arats. Whole sale markets in the city. The distinctive stages in fish marketing are: (1) fish catching (2) fish collection (3) fish wholesaling in arats and (4) fish retailing. Fish catchers are very numerous,