Goal Together#10 Activity “Doing Fish Aggregating Device (Fads), Learning about the Blue Crab Bank”

Pak Nam Pran Local Fishing Group, Pranburi District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province

Goal Together #10 project by the Suthirat Yoovidhya Foundation takes volunteers to join in the effort and learn about the importance of the sea and how important it is to our way of life through hands-on activities “Doing Fish Aggregating Device (Fads), Learning about the Blue Crab Bank”.

Begin the activity of learning about local fishing tools that come from the wisdom and invention of the villagers and are used to catch marine animals and are environmentally friendly tools, as well as making Fish Aggregating Device (Fads) activities with representatives of farmer groups providing information. Before taking action, volunteers learned about the significance of “FADs” to the ecosystem, as well as how the materials used to make it are long-lasting and beneficial to the marine environment. Mr. Chuea Khaeyai (Uncle Chuea), the group’s president, led the group to the blue crab bank, where volunteers saw 8 blue crab conservation ponds containing breeding blue swimming crabs donated by villagers. He explained how the conservation project began by driving work from going out to sea to releasing baby crabs into the sea. Throughout the education, volunteers shared knowledge, learned, and asked questions.

The seminar was titled “From Upstream to Downstream with Local Fishing Methods towards Sustainable Conservation”

1. Mr. Chuea Khaeyai discussed driving conservation work, which can be referred to as the “Upstream” of all activities, how it began, how to overcome obstacles, and how to solve various crises, including how to establish a group that is strong and capable of creating a better group economic system, income for the community, and sustainability, with the goal of becoming a community business entrepreneur.

2. Professor Rachakorn Vachirasirodom, a representative of the academic agency, came to participate in driving work in the area to support academic knowledge and create a marketing planning system and standard system, as well as to support knowledge in various fields in order to advance to become community business entrepreneurs.

3. Miss Apinya Chokbundit, an expert on organic agricultural standards, was present to reinforce knowledge of organic agricultural standards, expand knowledge for the group to reflect on lessons learned, and analyze the potential for developing a system to obtain initial organic agricultural standard certification with the goal of becoming a community business entrepreneur.

4. Mr. Vuttipong Chacaratpong, Vice President, is a representative of the Suthirat Foundation, an organization that comes to support community activities by increasing knowledge and assisting communities to achieve sustainability.

Activites

“Ting Sang” Volunteers board a boat and place the sang at the same coordinates they do every year, 3,000 meters from the coast. It is made up of cement buoys, bamboo, and coconut paths, with two FADs per boat, allowing students to learn the entire process from beginning to end.
“Lesson Learned” divide volunteers into 3 groups to brainstorm opinions on 3 topics:

1. What do you gain from conserving marine resources? How does it affect the community?
2. How does the Group’s adjustment to becoming a community business entrepreneur affect conservation work?
3. How important is an outside perspective on the Group and how can it help the area?

To share information from this lesson with the community in order to improve and develop the Group’s potential