Southeast Asian country zone and South Asian zone. Coastal aquaculture is the activity operating along
the sea shore, estuarine areas, canals, lakes inundation areas, mangrove areas, and shallow areas near
the sea shore.
Marine fishery output has smoothly continued expanding due to the factors: the increased
fishing outside Thai territorial waters as neighbouring countries allowed Thai fishing boats to fish in their
waters either based on payment of fees or joint investment projects and the successful on
implementation of measures to conserve and restore of the resources including the rapid expansion of
coastal farming, especially the cultured giant tiger prawn.
Timber and forest products statistics originate from the Royal Forestry Department, Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives.
Forest area means all forest types such as evergreen, pine, mangrove, dry dipterocarp, mixed
deciduous, scrub, swamp, bamboo and forest plantation in the national forest reserved, national parks,
wildlife sancturies, forest working plan and forest concession areas, excluding para rubber plantations
and orchards.
Regarding forestry situations in general, the National Forest Policy has established as a policy
that there should be at least
40
percent of the country area under forest cover. This represents about
128
million rais so as to achieve balance in environments and emphasize on population to participate
the activities of Royal Forestry Department.
