Sea cucumber fishing pattern and the socio-economic characteristics of fisher communities in Sri Lanka

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Table 3

Variations in fishing effort, CPUE (in nos/person/day), total landings, cost of operation, income and other fishery related information in the north, north-west and north-east coast of Sri Lanka from November 2015 to January 2017.

	North-west		North				North-east

Parameter	SCUBA	Snorkelling	SCUBA	Snorkelling	Gleaning	Netting	SCUBA
Fishing Effort (number of people/operations per day)	335 ± 5^a	102 ± 12^b	68 ± 4^c	305 ± 51^a	27 ± 4^c	28 ± 4^c	372 ± 34^a
CPUE (catch per person per day)	88 ± 14^a	43 ± 17^ab	100 ± 5^a	31 ± 30^b	14 ± 10^b	35 ± 4^ab	558 ± 83^c
Distance to fishing ground (km)	29 ± 9^a	15 ± 5^ab	10 ± 3^ab	8 ± 4^b	2 ± 1^b	16 ± 1^ab	31 ± 8^a
Cost per person (US$) per day	39.9 ± 11.8^a	5.7 ± 4.7^b	8.9 ± 8.0^b	2.9 ± 1.7^b	0.08 ± 0.00^b	6.5 ± 1.9^b	38.4 ± 7.4^a
Total income per person (US$) per day	68.9 ± 28.6^a	23.2 ± 15.5^b	21.0 ± 7.7^b	12.1 ± 5.1^b	5.1 ± 4.9^b	9.8 ± 2.7^b	80.7 ± 25.3^a
Average number of fishing days per month	14 ± 3^a	15 ± 4^a	14 ± 3^a	15 ± 3^a	4 ± 2^b	20 ± 4^a	15 ± 4^a
Fishing months per year	5 ± 0.2^a	4.5 ± 0.1	4.5 ± 0.5^a	4.6 ± 0.4^a	5.0 ± 0.1^a	5 ± 2^a	4.5 ± 0.4^a
Net income per month (US$) per person	516.9 ± 43.7^ab	288.1 ± 10.5^b	209.7 ± 22.8^ab	205.6 ± 81.5^b	31.2 ± 17.8^b	107.5 ± 18.6^b	888.0 ± 68.8^a
Total landings per the study period (No × 10³)	2926.01		2016.75				12303.15

Note: Fishing effort is a measure of the number of divers per region for SCUBA, snorkelling and gleaning methods and the number of surrounding nets in netting method. Values in same raw bearing, different letters are significantly different (ANOVA, p < 0.05).

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