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Incidence and Determinants of Nonfishing Employment among Fishermen: Case Study of the State of Malacca, Malaysia

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dc.contributor.author Mohd, Kusairi en_US
dc.contributor.author Kuperan, K. en_US
dc.contributor.author Yew, Tai Shzee en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:32:27Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:32:27Z
dc.date.issued 1993 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-31 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-07-31 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/821
dc.description.abstract "Restriction or reduction of fishing effort is a universal prescription for an overexploited fishery. Conceivably the approach taken ranges from taking fishermen out of fishing completely to developing alternative sources of income for fishermen. The former approach imposes drastic changes on fishermen. The latter approach promises better prospects for success as fishermen are not divorced abruptly from their connections to the sea. Furthermore there is a strong subsistence component in most traditional small-scale fisheries which implies fishing communities will be deprived of an important source of protein food if they are prohibited from fishing. "This paper attempts to look at the incidence and nature of nonfishing employment and explore the main determinants of fishermen participation in these nonfishing activities. The study is focused on fishermen in the state of Malacca and is based on data collected from a survey of 285 respondents in early 1992. "The incidence of nonfishing employment is high (40%) in terms of numbers of fishermen having nonfishing employment and in terms of contribution of nonfishing to total income (38%). The importance of nonfishing income in improving income distribution, as evidenced by the Gini coefficient is not supported by this set of data. The main factors affecting participation examined are age, income from fishing, educational level, family size, and distance from town center. The influence of these factors on participation in nonfishing employment are examined via the logit and probit regression procedures." en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject marine resources en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.title Incidence and Determinants of Nonfishing Employment among Fishermen: Case Study of the State of Malacca, Malaysia en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Malaysia en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Common Property in Ecosystems Under Stress, the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 16-19, 1993 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Philippines en_US
dc.submitter.email aurasova@indiana.edu en_US


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