Survey of the Perspective of Commercial Fish Culture in Pongluang Village, Wiangchai District, Chiang Rai Province

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to characterize the model of commercial aquaculture, the problems and trends in the development of freshwater fish aquaculture in Pongluang Village, Wiangchai Subdisttrict, Wiangchai District, Chiang Rai Province. The sample group was ten farmers who marketed many types of fingerling fish in Pongluang Village. The research tools used in this study were questionnaires, interview and seminar to brainstorm for further development of fisheries business in Pongluang Village. The data were analyzed by using percent, means and content analysis.

The results showed that (1) the perspective was nursery fish. Almost the farmers raised one centimeter (fries) to grower sized about  2-5 centimeters (called fingerling). Then sold to the farmers who raised that fish for consumption. The Pongluang farmers bred the Nile tilapia, small scale mud carp, and common silver barb. The other fingerlings  were bought from the other farms, then were raised to  2-5 centimeters in length which called nursery. The fingerlings  were catfish, walking catfish, common carp, striped snakehead fish, Thai silver barb, Chinese carp, rohu, small scale mud carp, Mekong giant catfish, Gourami, Jullien’s mud carp, fancy carp, greater black shark,  Java tilapia, snaked skin Gourami, spotted feather carp, Asian redtail catfish, goby and moonlight Gourami.  (2) Most of the problems were high price of fish feed and climatic changes (3) The suitable development  trend in Pongluang fish culture were to increase the  variety of  fingerlings, regulary quality sized fingerling and good marketing.