It also aimed to alleviate poverty by
creating opportunities for self-employment and by improving
socio-economic conditions of fisher folk, and to preserve environmental
balance, biodiversity, and improve public health (Fisheries
and Aquaculture Department, 2012). The unique contribution of
the fisheries policy is that it includes separate policies for inland
closed water fish culture and for coastal shrimp and fish culture. It
comes up with several measures to mitigate some of the negative
effects of uncontrolled shrimp farming.