The vulnerability context of the estuarine set bag net (ESBN) fishermen community of Bangladesh was examined through the sustainable livelihood approach format. Participatory methods were used to find out the attributes related to livelihoods vulnerability due to seasonality, shock and trend. Fifteen attributes—with their possible answers in a five point likert scale—were developed through the focus group discussion and validated by the key informant to quantify the extent of prevailing vulnerability in the community. Means for the attributes accounting for the seasonality, shocks and trend ranged between 4.15 and 4.38, 4.23 and 4.36 and 4.46 and 4.54 respectively. All the means of selected attributes were found significantly higher than the critical rating (here, 4) which indicated the prevalence of the acute vulnerable situation in the community. The information of the present study may be taken into consideration during construction of the management recommendations for ESBN fishermen community of Bangladesh.
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