Extension Services for Small-Scale Fisheries in Ranong, Thailand - BOBP/MAG/15
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This document brings together the learnings of an extension project in Ranong, Thailand and information from various sources on extension approaches leading to the development and management offisherics in coastal areas of Thailand. The intention is to make available material in convenient form, to provincial fishery officers, fishery biologists, fishery extension officers and fisherfolk, to facilitate and guide their efforts. The document begins with a section on the Fishery Development Polic y under the Seventh National Economic and Social Development Plan of Thailand and the role that fishery extension could, and should, play inachieving the objectives. It goes on to describe briefly the project in Ranong and focuses on the learnings of the project. The final section blends the learnings of the Ranong Project with the learnings from other sources and proposes guidelines for fishery extension in coastal provinces under the broad headings: Concepts of extension, the organization of e xtension, understanding and assessing fisherfolk and extension needs, the process of extension and the process of knowledge and technology transfer.