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Three Years Post-Tsunami Rehabilitation of Fish Cage Culture on the Andaman Coast of Thailand: Current Status and the Need for Future Support

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  • The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 severely affected six provinces (Ranong,Phang-nga, Phuket, Krabi, Trang and Satun) on the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand. About 27,000 fish cage culture operators in the Andaman coastline were affected by the tsunami impact, covering a total cage area of some 1,123,176 square meters. Estimate of the losses from aquaculture cages was approximately US$92 million. The compensation allowable would be 20,000 baht for cage farms registered with the Departmernt of Fisheries (DoF) and 14,000 baht for cage farms not registered with the DoF. Based on the survey conducted, the money compensated subsequently used to buy materials for cage re-construction and cage repairable accounted for 28.1% of the total, and to buy seed, feed and chemical for culture operation 15.8%. A surprising finding is that 56.1% of compensated money was used for other purposes. The cage farmers raising the grouper, sea bass, red snapper, cobia, green mussel, oyster and lobster accounted for 37.7%, 35%, 11.8%, 10.1%, 4.4%, 0.7% and 0.3% of the total number of cage farmers, respectively. The seed shortage, high cost of trash fish, disease outbreak and marketing were problems and constraints encountered. Technical, marketing and financial supports are required for the future.
  • Keywords: Rehabilitation, Fisheries Economics, Post-tsunami, Cage culture, Thailand
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  • Tanyaros, Suwat, Apirak Songrak, Rattanaporn Anantasuk and Suchat Sangchan. 2008. Three Years Post-Tsunami Rehabilitation of Fish Cage Culture on the Andaman Coast of Thailand: Current Status and the Need for Future Support. 11 pages. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, July 22-25, 2008, Nha Trang, Vietnam: Achieving a Sustainable Future: Managing Aquaculture, Fishing, Trade and Development. Compiled by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 2008.
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  • US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Division, The Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada; Aquaculture CRSP and AquaFish CRSP; Minh Phu Seafood Corporation; Vietnam Datacommunication Company (VDC); Camau Frozen Seafood Processing Import Export Corporation (Camimex); Long Sinh Limited Company; Mai Linh Group and Nam Viet Corporation.
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