The Information Practices of Fishermen Community in Canning Subdivision of South 24 Parganas District:

a case study

Abstract

This paper attempts to evaluate the information practices of fishermen community in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district. The main purpose of this study is to identify the basic information needs of the fishermen and find out the appropriate sources of information. Mainly the survey method was used for data collection. In this study, 150 fishermen in total were randomly selected from the four blocks (Basanti, Canning I, Canning II and Gosaba) of Canning subdivision. Data were collected from sampling persons by questionnaire with the help of personal interview conducted by the researcher. The findings of this study reveal about the sex,
age group, religion, marital status, type of family, level of education and monthly income of the fishermen community in this region. This study also investigates the various types of information needs such as technical, climatic, environmental, economic and so on. Also the different type of information sources used by the fishermen has also been described here. This study is an original depiction of the information practices of fishermen community of canning subdivision.