One town and 63 village tracts make up Thandwe Township, with a total population of about 140,000 people. Village J in the M village tract and Village S in the S village were selected as the study site (see Table 1) due to highly active anchovy fishing in both villages and a large number of migrating labourers. The interviews were conducted in February 2008 reasons for selecting these two villages were that the anchovy purse seine fishing is quite active in these villages and these are the two biggest destinations for the migrating fishing labourers.