The Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) approach has made a significant contribution towards
improvement of fishers' empowerment of inland openwater fisheries in Bangladesh aiming to manage their
resources efficiently. This arrangement introduced CBFM approaches named fisher-led, community-led and
women-led approach. A wider range of local institutional arrangements as community based organizations
(CBOs) have been established through participatory process with legal entity. Now, the CBOs as local institutions
and fishers are more empowered in participation of fishery management under co-management arrangement.
The study reveals that there is still lack of institutional arrangement to be achieved at optimum level. This paper
presents and assesses theempowerment status of the fisher communities in inland openwater fisheries under comanagement
arrangement in Bangladesh through Factor analysis and regression model. This study might have
policy implication to replicate the community based fishery management approach to promote empowerment
for better management.