A GLANCE OF FISHERMEN'S COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES AROUND THE GLOBE

Abstract

All over the world, fisheries is promising activity. More than three billion people depend directly or indirectly on fisheries. As the people's involvement in this sector was enormous, they need to serve efficiently and effectively. Keeping in mind, fishermen's come themselves together and established their own cooperative society to meet needs and to flourish the business activity. The main mandate of fishermen's cooperative society was to help their members in all business activities socially, economically and technologically. The main objective of this paper was to take review of fishermen's cooperative societies around the world. The review outcomes indicate that, cooperative societies with strong financial support succeed in the development of cooperative. Fish marketing has received priority among all activities, and societies involved in fish marketing activities were found flourished. Apart from marketing, the successful societies have engaged in other business activities like insurance, banking, supplies, exports, etc. Management of societies by state officials or persons without adequate knowledge and experience in fisheries has been a failure. Among the problems associated with fishermen's cooperative societies were fishing disputes, degree of honesty by the members, lack of capital, shortage of adequately trained and well motivated fisheries extension workers, etc.