The Abundance of Aquatic Animal Resources of Thailand. Thailand  has  a  large  coastal  area  covering  2,400  kilometer  and  adjoining  to  the  Gulf  of Thailand and Andaman  Sea.  Formerly, we could find diversity of aquatic animal inhabiting, breeding  and  sheltering  within  the  Gulf  of  Thailand.  This  is  due  to  natural  rock,  mangrove and coral reef including big rivers that blow food and nutrition(mineral)for marine animal to the  Gulf  of  Thailand.  From  the  past  until  now,  Thai  people  takes  advantage  a  lot  fromsea, marine  resources  in  the  Gulf  of  Thailand,  apart  from being  domestic consuming,  has  been mostly  exported  to  global  market.  For  the  time  being,  many  kind  of  marine  aquatic  animaland  seawater  quality  have  been  deteriorating  and  put  adversely  affect  to  marine  ecosystem both direct and indirect ways which definitely will have an impact on global environment.

Thailand has been one of the significant aquaculture sources of the world. Shrimp; the main economic  aquatic  animal,  has  push  Thailand  towards  the  leader  of  seafood  producer.  Upon the  geographical  and  weather  conditionscontributing  to  the  aquatic  animal  growth,  Thai shrimp  has  been  internally  recognized  in  terms  of  good  flavor  and  higher  quality.  However, as  in  the  past,  under  the  Royal  Ordinance  on  Fisheries  B.E.  2490,  fishing  and  aquaculture could  be  operatedindependently  with  non –restricted  management  and  without  prevention principle.

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written by Fisheries Foreign Affairs Division