This study was conducted with a view to evaluate the existing processing and marketing system of selected eight dried marine fish namely: Rupchanda (Pomphret) (Pampus .chinensis), Churi (Ribbon fish) (Trichiurus. haumela), Poa (Jew fish) (0.tolithes argentatus), Kamila (Eel) (Muraenesox talabonoides), Loyitta (Bombay duck) (Harpadon nehe' reus), Lakhua (Indian Salmon) (Leptomelanosoma .indicum), Maitya (Indian Mackeral) (Rastreffiger kanagutra) and Fatra (Herring) (1Isha melastoma),and observed the women participation. This s'tudy was based on a sample survey of 25 dried marine fish producers/processors, 15 Women and 35 intermediaries from Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and Dh.aka. Collection of raw -fish; grading; icing; .evisceration; washing, cleaning, salting and drying; use .of medicine and preservatives and packing were the different stages Of dried marine fish processing-system. Various intermediaries participated in the dried marine fish marketing channels who were Bepari, Aratdar, wholesaler and retailer. Transportation facilities like boats/mechanical boats, shoulder-load/head-load truck, rickshaw and van were used to carry fish anddried fish.by the producers and .the. intermediaries. The sources of • finance for producers and intermediaries were friends and relatives, • Nbos, village m'oney • lenders, fellow traders and • banks etc. Family supplied women participated mainly in the processing activities of dried marine fish. They engaged in different kinds of probess.ingiactivities like evisceration, washing and cleaning, icing, salting, sun-drying, grading, packing, storing, care 'taking, net making etc.