• Rabin Das
• Dr. Manishree Mondal

The study area, Khejuri stands on the bank of the western arm of the Hooghly having the fluvio-coastal dignity on geomorphologic scale. In fact, huge shrimp culture in illegal, unscientific, unplanned and haphazard way has been expanding dramatically over the last two decades for its high demand in the international market and its potential for making quick profit. This study is mainly to investigate the human and environmental costs for horizontal expansion of shrimp farming influenced by coast-riverine circumstances of Hooghly, Rasulpur, Talpati Creek and beginning edge of Bay of Bengal. The survey cum research shows the serious environmental impacts; ecological imbalances and various socioeconomic costs. Shrimp cultivation is undoubtedly economically beneficial for a selected group of people, but it has unenthusiastically affected the livelihoods of landless and marginal farmers mining environment and ecology. Hence, the study may be a humble endeavor made to assess the economic potentiality vis-à-vis ecological impacts of shrimp farming whereas the research focus is a reliable analysis with a clear agenda to protect environment of the region. Profit budget analysis, resource valuation, cost-benefit analysis, cost replacement method, productivity index analysis, LULC analysis, etc. have been weighted as the important methods with the broad literature review and extensive quantitative and perception survey here. Setting goals and scope to sustainable aqua-development and integrated management policy, this paper also attempts to provide the blueprint for micro-level planning and development using 4-C framework and applying 4-R model with respect to the red reality of blue resource in study area.

Shrimp culture, profit budget analysis, productivity index analysis, sustainable aquaculture, integrated management, 4-C framework

"Huge and Hasty Growth of Shrimp Culture and Distress to Society and Environment of Fluvio-Coastal Khejuri over Rasulpur Basin in West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.e409-e430, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105597.pdf

"Huge and Hasty Growth of Shrimp Culture and Distress to Society and Environment of Fluvio-Coastal Khejuri over Rasulpur Basin in West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppe409-e430, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105597.pdf