It is noted that frequently mentioned factors generally had to do
with incentives for bringing the garbage back to port, waste
reception facilities at ports, recycling of household waste and
personal views regarding the protection of the marine environment.
For the last factor, it is interesting to note that there were two
divergent perspectives. Some informants stated that they were
concerned about the health of the marine environment and were
more inclined to bring garbage back to port so that their fishing-
dependent livelihood could be sustained. Others argued that since
garbage was littered everywhere in the sea, it did not matter
whether or not they discharge theirs into sea, and that garbage
disposal was a very trivial matter compared to catching fish. In
considering these two divergent viewpoints, an interesting dimen-
sion would be to examine whether fishers’ attitudes towards the
marine environment could have a behavioral impact on the dis-
charge of garbage into sea or bringing it back to port. All the above
mentioned factors, based on their attributes, were divided into
categories (motive and constraint) and utilized in the next stage