Tropang Sangke Community Fisheries is a coastal fishing community in Kampot province has 307 ha of fishing size, was created to manage the preservation, development, and use of sustainable resources in the community, along with the protection of the rights as well as benifit of residents and public.
This studying aims to demonstrate the functionality management community fishery today and find out the level of participate of community member and analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats on community management. It was carried out 3 village; Kompong Khes village, Tropang Thom Village, and Tropang Sangke Village. For a family chosen sample of 83 families of 507 families who are member of all fishing community by random selected.
According to result from a survey with family simple and analyzed directly by computer showed that the function of the management of each committees has responsibility for job-structured clear through the election of local citizens and the registration of recognition process management fishing community correctly through the chief of cantonment Kampot, department of community development of FiA, and MAFF. Many people are aware around the building of internal control, statute, law, planning, community development, as well as fishing crime prevention resource, and nature conservation in their communities. Especially, I found that the participation of volunteer activities is greatly from community member and the local citizens as well the process community management including committee’s election, setting up the fishing border, and crime prevention rehabilitation of mangrove forest, mangrove nursery, create a conservation area acres. Obviously I found the resources in the community has increased numerous mangrove, other natural resource in community. On the other hand Tropang Sangke community reached a lot of results under the willing high of the commission made it popular recognition, and admiration from the leader such as department of environment, department of tourism, provincial fisheries administration.
Overall, we can conclude that the management status of Tropang Sangke community fisheries, located in Tropang Sangke commune, Teak Chhou district, Kampot doses have a good process equitable, sustainable, and participated approached from local people.