The coastal waters of Cambodia support a large number of marine fish and invertebrate
species. Try (2003) gives the scientific, English and Kmer names for those marine species
recorded from the country: 476 species of marine finfish, 20 species of marine crabs, 42
species of marine gastropods and 24 species of marine bivalves.
In the marine fisheries statistics published by the Department of Fisheries (DoF, 2002), nine
different groups are given. The 2001 landings of these groups by province/municipality are
provided in Table 2 below. Little quantitative information is available on the composition of
the finfish component.