Inland fisheries
Inland fisheries compose of
2
main activities, i.e. harvesting from wild and
aquaculture, wild freshwater fishes were totally harvested from public water bodies, and flood plain areas in
the rainy season while cultured species were obtained from ponds, paddies, ditches, and cages.
Marine fisheries
Marine fisheries and coastal aquaculture are the main fishery production of the
country. Marine fishery resources are divided into 3 groups, i.e. pelagic fishery resources, demersal fishery
resources, and invertebrates or other aquatic animals. Two mng groarine fishiunds of the country are the Gulf
of Thailand and the Andaman Sea area. As for deep sea fishery, it is usually done in 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 neighboring 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 and National
park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment.
Existing forest area in this table means forest of all types such as evergreen, pine, mangrove, mixed
deciduous, dry dipterocarp, scrub, swamp and beach forest in the national forest reserved, national parks,
wildlife sanctuaries, forest working plan with an area of
5
hectares
(3.125
rai
)
or move with tree taller than
5
meters or more canopy covering more than
10%
of the ground area.
Regarding forestry situations in general, the National Forest Policy has established 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.
