SEAFDEC Technical Seminar 2016

Abstract

The fisheries sectors are very important and need the information in order to management the fisheries system and sustain the fisheries resources. The government and other agencies have been searched and collected on the fisheries data but the statistic data for this sector are very limited especially from the small-scale fisheries. Particularly, the statistics or complete data regarding marine products distribution and market from small-scale fisheries are not available, there are mostly the statistics of commercial fisheries. As well as the existed academic paper is a few. Therefore, the research conducted survey of marine product distribution in Rayong Province, Thailand as a case study, which focused on the fish distribution by collect the data from small-scale fishers and middle persons. Furthermore, the objective of this research is to describe the relationship of middle person and small-scale fishers.