Fish Trade on Fishing Products in Tonle Sap Great Lake

Abstract

Looking to daily activities in Tonle Sap Great Lake and fish markets, the topic "Fish Trade on Fishing Products in Tonle Sap Great Lake" has been conducted to where fish products in Tonle Sap are exported, as well as of the way of fish processing. The study aims to (1) Identify the distribution of fish yields for domestic markets and fish species for processing; (2) Identify the distribution of fish yields for processing and different types of processing to domestic markets; (3) Evaluate the supply of the fresh fish yields in Tonle Sap to satisfy the demand of people in Cambodia; (4) Study market channels and values added by each transaction on fresh and processed fish products into domestic markets. Informally purposive sampling is selected for the research. The analysis shows the fish yields vary from each year in which the data has been recorded by the Fisheries Administration. However, during 2010, Tonle Sap Authority data shows the fish yield is about 537,000 tons, nearly triple of that of the Fisheries Administration of about 173,450 tons and equal to about 50% of Cambodian fish consumption. There are many fish species involved in the trade both domestic and international market such as bronze featherback, chevron snakehead, boeseman croaker, asian bonytongue, clown featherback, silver barb, giant snakehead, reddish sheatfish, frecklefin eel, blackspotted catfish, sickle fin barb, giant barb, peacock eel. The main actors of the supply chain of fisheries products are the fishing lot owners, fishers, fish collectors, wholesalers, trader-middleperson, and retailers. So, the fish market channel is from the first fishers until the final consumers. Fish market transaction is added from a transaction to another about 30% to over 80%, and the fish prices among domestic markets are not quite different from each other, just below 1,000 riel.