The Portrait of Women’s Participation on Inland Fishery Activities in Lao PDR

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 810; no. 1; pp. 12017 - 12022
• Main Authors: Muthmainnah, D, Rais, A H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Aquaculture; Fish; Fisheries; Inland fisheries; Marketing; Reservoirs; Standard of living; Tabulation; Laos
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/810/1/012017
• ISSN: 1755-1307

Abstract Lao PDR faces the challenges of raising the standard of living because of a rapidly expanding population, and one way is to increase the fishery sector roles. Women also involved in fishery activities, however, information on the roles and functions of women of capture fishery and aquaculture activities, fish processing, and marketing is still completely limited. The field survey was conducted in 2016-2019 in Lao PDR (Nam Xouang Reservoir, Nam Ngum Reservoir, and Nam Houm Reservoir). The study was carried out by collecting the primary data and secondary data. The primary data was obtained by interviewing the women who practiced fishery activities, while the secondary data was from the statistical data. The data was arranged in tabulation and descriptive, as well as analyzed qualitatively. The results showed that the participation status of the women who live surrounding the reservoir is satisfactory. Nevertheless, it needs to improve the women’s consciousness of modern techniques for capturing, culturing, processing the fish, and marketing. It is expected that the finding of this research will help policymakers to take a useful initiative to improve the women’s roles in participating in increase their family welfare and as the actor in the fishery community.