During the last three decades, different types of projects
have been implemented by DOF including some access management
oriented projects such as the Third Fisheries Project
(Ali and Islam, 1998; Ahmad et al., 1998) and the Oxbow
Lakes Project (Hasan and Middendorp, 1998). Most of these
projects have been designed and implemented with a very
limited consultation especially at the community level and
a general absence of a coherent strategic framework for a
review of the sector