3. Local people’s participation in debate of aquaculture zone demarcation
The Chumphon provincial fisheries officer proposed two issues to the meeting. The first issue was changed of the
objective of culture areas only for shellfish culture, which is under the Chumphon provincial proclamation, to be areas for
carrying-out aquaculture. The second issue was officialdemarcation of allowable fish cage andshellfish culture areas. At
the meeting, local people proposed that areas for fish cagecultureshould be300 raiandareas for shellfish culture should
be 600 rai. Therefore, fishers proposed that the monsoon avoiding place should be reserved to anchor fishing boat when
monsoon season comes. The officers and local people participated in debate of aquaculture zone demarcation by using
coastal areas map (Figure 4) through theparticipatory resource assessment (PRA) approach. Then, the representatives of
each village of the community were elected to take role as community committee and joined the local officers to mark the
position of area demarcation.