PhD Scholar, Department of Geography, West Bengal State University, at Barasat, West Bengal
Online published on 20 June, 2017.
One of the most common and popular practice in the coastal areas of India is Shrimp cultivation, producing around 120, 000 tonnes of shrimps each year (Coastal Aquaculture Authority, 2006). The saline river water of the east-coastal estuarine delta region of Indian Sunderban i.e. the active deltaic region of West Bengal, serves as the primary source of shrimp fry. In West Bengal, inland shrimp farming has been subdivided into high and low salinity region by Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture which falls under 26 blocks of North and South 24 Parganas district. The paper tries to examine the contrast nature of shrimp (Tiger Prawn/Penaues monodon/Bagda) farming practice between high (Dhamakhali village) and low (Dadpur village) salinity brackish water region and try to find the effects of shrimp farming on the economy and the environment of the study area. Spearman's rank correlation coeficient techniques has been used to find out the nature of relationship between the villages in shrimp cultivation.
