Comparison of Different Dimensions of Sustainable Fishing in the Pareh Cooperatives in Gilan Province

Choobchian, Shahla; Kalantari, Khalil; Asadi, Ali; Taghavi Motlagh, Seyed Aminollah; Hosseini Nia, Gholamhossein

doi:10.22059/ijaedr.2013.50234

Comparison of Different Dimensions of Sustainable Fishing in the Pareh Cooperatives in Gilan Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Shahla Choobchian ¹

khalil kalantari ²

Ali Asadi ²

Seyed Aminollah Taghavi Motlagh ³

Gholamhossein Hosseini Nia ⁴

¹ PhD. Student, Agricultural Development, Tehran, Iran

² Professors, Agricultural Economics and Development, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/ijaedr.2013.50234

Abstract

Fishing as one of the most important agricultural sectors has an important role in providing the protein for people. Pareh cooperatives despite of having a long history, are faced with problems such as loss of fishing catch compare with previous years, the high cost of purchasing tools and equipments to catch and transportation and Location of fishing become unfavorable due to natural and human factors that this could cause instability in fishing sector in the northern coastal strip, especially in Gilan province. This paper aimed to investigate the sustainability of fishing cooperatives (Pareh) in Gilan province and has been developed to analyze different aspects of sustainability in the cooperatives. The statistical populations of the research were managing directors and board chairmen of fishery cooperatives and Fisheries experts of Gilan province that 36 of them were determined through formula of Cochran and were selected randomly. Methods used in this paper, were the technique of multi-criteria analysis, a general approach that can analyze complex problems involving multiple criteria are used in sophisticated systems such as fishing. The results showed that economic sustainability has the best situation and ecological sustainability has the worst situation, which shows the status of the Caspian Sea's ecological crisis.

Keywords

Gilan province

multi-criteria analysis techniques

PAREH cooperatives

sustainable fishing