3.3. Factors to debris disposal practices
A total of nine factors were identified to either promote or hinder
fishers’ bringing garbage back to port. They were indexed and
classified into two categories: motive and constraint. The mean
scores of factors in descending order are shown in Table 2. For the
motive items (M 1 –M 6 ), ‘M 1 : a well-developed household waste
recycling practice’ and ‘M 2 : captains requiring crews to bring garbage
back to port’ were rated as the items with high agreement (4.04 and
4.01, respectively). This indicates these two factors feature most in
fishers’ decision-making on bringing garbage back to port. The items