Report on GIS Aquaculture Market Resource Mapping

The main objective of this market resource mapping exercise was to identify potential gaps in input supply or market services and provide a key decision and policy tool for management of the Activity and the aquaculture sector in the coverage areas. Linked to GIS maps this spatial database shall provide near real-time spatial information on supplier/market actor’s location and product description. In total 23 districts, 150 Upazillas, 99 Paurashavas and 1332 unions have been visited under this GIS resource mapping activity. Basic information along with spatial data for every single market actors across the surveyed region has been captured. After series of data checking and validation stage collected data has been uploaded in server. This census has collected detailed information for 7,414 markets including fish and without fish, 153 feed mills, 339 hatcheries and 18,324 nurseries in the survey site.