Fishing Industry Annual Report: Thailand, 1988

摘要

Thailand is a major producer and exporter of fisheries products; and the fisheries industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the booming Thai economy. In recent years the value of the Thai domestic catch has been equal to around 2.3 percent of GNP and the value of fishery exports equal to the biggest fisheries industry in Southeast Asia and one of the ten largest in the world. The Thai fishing fleet consists of almost 50,000 vessels, and more than 139,506 Thai are employed as fishermen. The report outlines the status of the Thai fishing industry through 1988, and covers such topics as domestic production, imports and exports, joint ventures and fishing agreements and government investment in the industry, as well as statistics on Thailand's foreign trade in fish and fishery products.