Thailand is one of the top fish producing nations in the world. Its geographic advantage contributes to the high annual fish production. Thailand has a coastline of about 2 600 km. The marine fishing grounds in the Gulf of Thailand and in the Andaman Sea, within Thailand’s Exclusive Economic Zone, cover a total area of about 316 000 km2. Inland waters cover approximately 3 750 km2. Besides, Thailand’s coastal area has about one million hectares suitable for coastal aquaculture.Fisheries production in Thailand demonstrated a remarkable growth over the last three decades. The total production exceeded two million tonnes for the first time in 1977, then a fall in production followed, but later production recovered to over two million tonnes and has been above this volume since 1982. In 2007, total production was about 3.9 million tonnes, of which 58.2 percent came from marine capture fisheries. The balance was contributed by coastal aquaculture, freshwater aquaculture and inland capture fisheries at 22.9 percent, 13.1 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively.