Abstract
Global Positioning System or GPS is an advanced tool that has been widely used in a number of industries including fisheries industry. The main attempt of the present study has much to do with GPS as it aims to identify young Malaysian fishermen readiness to use GPS within their fishing operation. The study is quantitative in nature where a developed questionnaire was used to collect the required data. A total of 240 young fishermen aged between 15 to 40 years old from four fishing areas in Malaysia were selected as the respondents. Overall, it can be concluded that young Malaysian fishermen are ready to use GPS within their fishing operation. However, their readiness can be further improved if aspects such as financial affordability, number of agencies staff, availability of workshop repairing dysfunction GPS and access to GPS are considered by the related agencies.
Highlights
Making fishermen in developing countries more skillful and knowledgeable on fisheries technology usage is generally considered a very important way to further develop both-the fisheries industry and the main actor of the industry-the fishermen
The mean score for income per month was RM941.5 which exceeded the poverty level set by rhe Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia which is RM720, it should be taken into consideration that some of the respondents were still earning below RM500 per month
This paper has focused on several readiness aspects of the young fishermen in Malaysia that might affect their adoption of GPS within their fishing operation
Summary
Making fishermen in developing countries more skillful and knowledgeable on fisheries technology usage is generally considered a very important way to further develop both-the fisheries industry and the main actor of the industry-the fishermen. Though there are abundance of study aim on fisheries technology usage among the fishermen (Omar et al, 2012; Ghee-Thean, 2012; Bolong et al, 2013; Mazuki et al, 2013), not much interest has been placed on their readiness to use advanced technology and the present study aims to fill the gap. Fisheries industry in Malaysia has been well developed. Such success can be measured by the increasing trend recorded for number of marine sources landed and the number of registered fishermen and vessels. A majority of fishermen in Malaysia is among the senior fishermen and up to date there is no recent statistic on the number of young fishermen in Malaysia, local studies done by Omar et al (2012), Shaffril et al (2013) and Mazuki et al (2013) have consistently shown that nearly 30% of fishermen within their studies are young fishermen
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