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Thailand's
fishing industry is dependent on marine catches. Fish from natural
fresh waters, commercial fish farms, and irrigated paddy fields
account for less than 10 percent of the total catch. The remainder
comes from the sea.
During
the fifth Five-Year Plan (1982-1986) fishery output increased by
an annual average of 2.45 percent as compared with the 4.49
percent per year during the Fourth Plan (1977-1981), 3.4 percent
per year during the Third Plan (1972-1976), and 18.6 percent per
year during the second Plan (1976-1971). Depletion of marine
resources during the Sixth Five-Year Plan (1987-1991) reduced
fishery output so much that the government is effectively
enforcing regulated fishing to ensure sustainable yields for both
present and future generations. An alternative which the
government has undertaken to encourage the production of fish
helps to expand freshwater fish farms to offset declining marine
catches. Towards this end, about 45 freshwater fishery stations
have been set up.
To
overcome the effect of 200-mile economic zone, the government has
promoted private joint fishing ventures with foreign countries
aimed at alleviating the problem of limited fishing sources, in
addition to private joint ventures in the waters of Indonesia,
Malaysia, Bangladesh, Australia, India, Vietnam, Cambodia and
Myanmar. further expansion of such joint ventures holds bright
prospect.
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