It is estimated that the demand for food fish in the year 2010, calculated at a constant per capita consumption rate of 22 kg/year, would be 18-19 million metric tons. Per capita consumption of fish in the Southeast Asian region is expected to increase by an additional 2 percent per year until 2020. Production from marine capture fisheries is not expected to keep up with the increasing demand for fish from the expanding population will create more stress on the already depleted coastal and inshore fishery resources targeted by small scale in the region.