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TITLE: ASSIGNMENT 1MARINE RESOURCES LANDINGLecturer: KENNEDY AARON AGUOLGroup members:Matric No. NameBIBSBIBSBSBSBIBIBACONTENTSTitle PageCONTENTS ILIST OF FIGURES IILIST OF TABLES II1 INTRODUCTION 1-2 HISTORY OF KOTA KINABALU CENTRAL MARKET 23 BUSINESS AND MARINE LIFE RESOURCES 33 FIRST RESPONDENT 3...

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TITLE: ASSIGNMENT 1 MARINE RESOURCES LANDING

Lecturer: KENNEDY AARON AGUOL

Group members: Matric No. BI BS BI BS BS BS BI BI BA

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CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

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LIST OF FIGURES

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LIST OF TABLES

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INTRODUCTION

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HISTORY OF KOTA KINABALU CENTRAL MARKET

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3.0

BUSINESS AND MARINE LIFE RESOURCES

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3.1

FIRST RESPONDENT

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3.2

SECOND RESPONDENT

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3.3

THIRD RESPONDENT

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3.4

FOURTH RESPONDENT

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3.5

FIFTH RESPONDENT

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CONCLUSION

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REFERENCE

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APPENDIX

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I

LIST OF FIGURES

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Central Market (Pasar Besar)

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3.1.1

One of the Marine Resources of Miss Biya

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3.2.1

One of the Marine Resources of Mr. Kai

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3.3.1

Third Interviewee, Mr. Elgan

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3.4.1

Third Interviewee, Mr. Jon

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3.5.1

Third Interviewee, Mrs. Ratna Abdullah

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LIST OF T TABLES ABLES

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3.1.1

Estimated Income, Miss Biya

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3.2.1

Estimated Income, Mr. Kai

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3.3.1

Estimated Income, Mr. Elgan

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3.4.1

Estimated Income, Mr. Jon

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3.5.1

Estimated Income, Mrs. Ratna Abdullah

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Detailed Average Products Sold by Mrs. Bya

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Detailed Average Products Sold by Mr. Kai

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Detailed Average Products Sold by Mr. Elgan

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Detailed Average Products Sold by Mr. Jon

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Detailed Average Products Sold by Mrs. Ratna

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INTRODUCTION

The ocean has always been a great influence to humans. It provides the Earth’s most valuable resources. Source of crude oil, minerals and most importantly source of protein. It is also used as transportation as well as treasured source of recreation for humans. However, over the years, fisheries has been an integral part of human society, and plays an important role in world economy. Fisheries is a term referring to all the fishing activities in the ocean. There are variations of ways in catching fish since very ancient ages, developing and upgraded to our generation, which includes one-man casting nets, huge trawlers, seining, drift netting, hand lining, long lining, gillnetting and diving. Kota Kinabalu Central Market (Pasar Besar Kota Kinabalu) is a market complex at the water front or just side by side the sea and along Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen. The complex consists of a few markets which are the Fish Market, Salted Fish Market, Filipino Handicraft Market, Night Food Market and Fruits Market.

Figure 1.1 : Central Market (Pasar Besar)

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The Fish Market is located right next the sea edge or water edge. It is located in between the water edge and Central Market. The Fish Market is not exactly prepared for tourism purpose but the Fish Market has a class of its own. It does not need to be suit-up for tourism due to its richness in different types of marine life resources. Everyone in majority including foreigners loves seafood. So it does not need to be said of why the Fish Market is always been a crowded place in Kota Kinabalu. Next, the Salted Fish (Ikan masin) Market is located right next to the Central Market and the main road (Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen). Different from Fish Market where mainly fresh marine species are being sold, Salted Fish Market on the other hand sells marine resources which have been salted. In this content, we will talk more about the Fish Market and Salted Fish Market regarding their Marine resources product and their fish vendors.

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HIST HISTORY ORY OF KO KOT TA KINABALU CENTRAL MARKET

Before the arrival of the supermarkets and hypermarkets chains, the Kota Kinabalu markets are the most important markets for supplying fresh produce, vegetables, and seafood. Kota Kinabalu Markets are made up of five main buildings, the largest is the Central Market, then we have Fish Market, Slated Fish Market, Filipino Handicraft Market, Night Food Market and Fruit Market. The whole market complex is locally called Filipino Markets (Pasar Filipina) because majority of the stalls are run by Filipino who originally immigrants from Philippines. Back then, they were just a few. But as time passes, more and more immigrants came. The fish monger or fishing ship owner is mainly from Peninsula and Sarawak. It is said that they had turned their interest to Sabah because of Sabah’s reputation for loving seafood. They sailed all the way from Peninsula and Sarawak to sell their marine life resources. Many restaurants, kopitiams, and canteen- operators do their daily shopping for fresh ingredients at these markets regularly, if not daily.

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3.0

BUSINESS AND MARINE LIFE RESOURCES

In this research, we had gone to the Fish Market and Salted Fish Market of Central Market (Pasar Besar) Kota Kinabalu to get information regarding the marine resources being sold. The method we used to for the research is mainly by interviewing respondents. From our observation, there are more than 15 fish vendor selling their marine resources and we had interviewed 5 of them. We asked about the types of marine resources being sold, the kilo age of the tonnage of marine resources sold and the rough income in a day or a week. The way the interview session is done was by ‘on the spot’ concept. We select a few fish vendors and directly went to them and ask for their little time for a brief interview. The interview was directly on the spot and an unofficial kind of method.

3.1

FIRST RESPONDENT

Figure 3.1.1 : One of the Marine Resources of Miss Biya

Our first respondent is Miss Biya. She says, she has been in this business for more than 4 years already. The types of marine resources she usually sell are squids, fish and crabs. The fish and crabs she sold are ‘ikan merah’, ‘ikan tongkol’, ‘ikan sardin’, ‘ketam nipah’, ‘ikan bawal’, ‘ikan lumahan’, ‘sotong basah (kurita)’. She gets these marine resources from SAFMA where many vendors bought their marine resources. SAFMA sell their fishes and all as wholesale which means the fish vendor in the fish market bought them in a much lower

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price and then selling them again to make profit and as their living. In a whole, Miss Biya had roughly sold 57.5 kilograms of marine resources in a day and the amount of income she gets from it is roughly 800 to 900 ringgit. The net income that Miss Biya gets daily is RM 843.5 which is the 10% of the rough income daily. While in a week, the average weight sold is 402.5 kilograms and the net income is RM590.5. Monthly average weight sold and net income gained is 1610 kilograms and RM 2,362 respectively. To get the annual weight of marine resources sold and the net income gained the rough income and the weight sold daily needs to be multiplied by 365 which is the total of days in a year. The result will get 19,320 kilograms of marine resources weight sold and RM 28,344of net income gained by Miss Biya annually. Even though the numbers are there, but Miss Biya stressed that the numbers are not fixed. Sometimes she sell less and sometimes more. For example, she says that when it comes to celebration of any kind such as celebration of Christmas Eve, she usually would gain more. She also added that during the monsoon season, the price of her marine species will be much higher thus affecting the amount of income she would get. Detailed statistic of Mrs. Bya product sold is in the appendix.

Weigh t Sold (kg)

Daily Rough Income (RM)

57.5

843.5

Net Income (RM) (Rough Income *10%) 84.35

Average Weekly Weight Net Sold Income (kg) (RM)

402.5

590.5

Monthly Weight Net Sold Income (kg) (RM)

Annually Weight Net Sold Income (kg) (RM)

1,610

19,320

2,362

Table 3.1.1 : Estimated Income, Miss Biya

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28,344

3.2

SECOND RESPONDENT

Figure 3.2.1 : One of the Marine Resources of Mr. Kai

Our next respondent is Mister Kai, a twenty five years old man. Mister Kai said he is new to this environment. It was just around three months ago since he started to embrace this kind of business. He said, he usually sells a few types of fish such as ‘ikan tongkol’, ‘ikan basung (sardin)’, ‘ikan kembung’, ‘ikan lumahan’ and crabs (ketam nipah). He also bought these marine resources from SAFMA as wholesale. Mister Kai says in average, he gets to sell around 50 kilograms of his marine resources a day. The amount of income he gets from it is roughly around 1,800 ringgit. He mentioned that he sometimes would get more profit during the festival or celebrations because people will come to Fish Market to buy the marine resources they want for preparation before any celebration. It is very important he said to keep on promoting your marine resources during these crucial events because there are many fish vendor around. Everyone is competing with each other to gain the attention of customers that came. Mister Kai added that the place will be crowded thus making the customer hasten their time there. Not only that it was crowded, the place is slippery. That is why it is important to him to get the customer’s attention the whole time. Mister Kai says that the average net income he gets a day is RM 74.5. It was from the 10% of the rough income he gets for selling his fish and crabs. Through his daily average weight sold, rough income and net income, Mister Kai had sold 374.8 kilograms of marine resources and gained RM 521.6 weekly. Where as in a month, he would get RM 2,310 and sold 1,660

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kilograms of his marine product. Lastly in a year, he would sold 19,920 kilograms of his marine resources and gained RM 27,720 in average. Detailed statistic of Mr Kai’s product sold is in the appendix.

Weigh t Sold (kg)

Daily Rough Income (RM)

53.5

521.6

Net Income (RM) (Rough Income *10%) 74.5

Average Weekly Weight Net Sold Income (kg) (RM)

374.8

521.6

Monthly Weight Net Sold Income (kg) (RM)

Annually Weight Net Sold Income (kg) (RM)

1,660

19,920

2,310

27,720

Table 3.2.1 : Estimated Income, Mr. Kai

3.3

THIRD RESPONDENT

Next, our third interviewee is Mister Elgan. Mister Elgan claimed that he has been in this business for years. He is a 26 years old guy working under his boss, the business owner in the fish market. All the money, the flow, of money in and out is handled by his boss including the business license and stuff, he added. From our observation and according to Mister Elgan, the type of marine species they sold was mainly shellfish like crabs (ketam nipah) and shells.

Figure 3.3.1 : Third Interviewee, Mr. Elgan

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He usually sells his crabs for RM 25 to RM 30 per kilo depending on the size. The bigger the crab, the higher the price per kilo. But from our observation, Mr. Elgan had already separate his crabs to different places and set the price for them. Other than that, he also has shells for RM 10 per kilo. He also added that the most popular that people buy between these two species is usually crabs. People love to eat crabs than shells, he claimed. Mr. Elgan said that they would roughly get up to RM 1000 a day in average. The amount of weight their marine resources sold is around 50-70 kilogram. In a week, they can sell up to 400 kilograms and get net income around 800 ringgit. While in monthly statistic, based on the average daily weight sold, rough and net income, Mr. Elgan can sell and gain 1,550 kilograms and RM 2,825 respectively. Lastly, their annual net income is estimated to reach up to RM 33,900 with 18,600 kilograms of their marine resources sold. Nevertheless, like the other interviewees he also added and stressed that their income is not constant and always changing depending on the weather, important dates and some other reason. He said that like any other fish vendor, the price and income he can get is affected by the monsoon season, celebration and stuff. During the monsoon season, the sea will get stormy. So it is hard to do any fisheries and catching during the particular Mother Nature. So this will cause their marine resources prices rose thus the amount of income increases. Detailed statistic of Mr. Elgan’s product sold is in the appendix.

Average Daily Weigh t Sold (kg)

Rough Income (RM)

55.3

1,009

Weekly Net Income (RM) (Rough Income *10%) 100.9

Monthly

Annually

Weight Sold (kg)

Net Income (RM)

Weight Sold (kg)

Net Income (RM)

Weight Sold (kg)

Net Income (RM)

387.5

706.25

1,550

2,825

18,600

33,900

Table 3.3.1 : Estimated Income, Mr. Elgan

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3.4

FOUR FOURTH TH RESPONDENT

Figure 3.4.1 : Fourth Respondent, Mr. Jon

Introducing himself as Jon, our next respondent is 23 years old man. According to him, they (he and his relative), started their family business around year 2011 and still, their business last until today. He added that they have been working under a ‘tauke’ who will manage the flow of money, legal license for business and stuff. According to him, there are some products that are popular among the consumers. The first product is dried fish, which, the price will change constantly due to many circumstances such as seasonal change. Next are anchovies, which the price can be Rm.40/kg and followed by dried prawn that is sold around Rm.70~Rm.80/kg. On the other hand, the products that are popular among the consumers are sea cucumber and scallop, which their price can be as low as Rm.200/500g and Rm.300/300g respectively. But both sea cucumber and scallop price are determined by the finest of the product, the finer it is, the more expensive the price will be. According to Mr. Jon, there are certain factors which will affect the market price of the marine product that they sold. First of all the market price of the product will change due to the weather. On a monsoon season, the price will hike due to the shortage of supply, while during the breeding season the price will drop as the supply is more than the market demand. On average, their net daily income will be around Rm.200~Rm.300. But, during a festive season, then can get up to Rm.3000/day. He added that, mostly their customer will be the Chinese as they are

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known for their herbal soup that uses scallop and sea cucumber as one of the main ingredient. Detailed statistic of Mr. Jon’s product sold is in the appendix.

Average Daily net income

Weekly net income

Annual net income

(RM) 300.00

(RM) 2100.00

(RM) 109 200.00

Table 3.4.1 : Estimated Income, Mr. Jon

3.5

FIFTH RESPONDENT

Figure 3.5.1 : Fifth Interviewee, Mrs. Ratna Abdullah

And our last interviewee identified herself as Mrs. Ratna Abdullah, 36 years-old experienced businesswomen. According to her, she has been in this field, the field of business for 8 years. There are many type of marine product that she sold, dry Karaufish,Tenggiri fish, Terumbuk fish, anchovies and dry prawn to name a few. Mrs. Ratna said that the products that are popular among the customers are Kurau fish, which the price can be Rm.68/kg, Tenggiri fish Rm.45/kg, next the anchovies which can be sold for

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Rm.30/kg but as the size increases, and so the price. Furthermore, she also sells dry prawn for Rm.45/kg and last but not least, dried squid for Rm.18/300g. Other than the popular product, she also sells the sea cucumber, Rm.200/500g and Rm.150/kg for scallop. She added that, most of the source of her income came from the tourist, the foreign and the local tourist. Mrs. Ratna said that the source supply for her marine product mostly came from Kota Kinabalu and Tawau. She added that she will also get the supply from Kudat but the amount of supply is nowhere near the amount of supply that she can get from both Kota Kinabalu and Tawau. As the previous interviewee, Mrs. Ratna also said that the price for the marine product that they are selling will fluctuate due to certain circumstances such as the weather, and the breeding season of the marine species. On average, her weekly net income is about Rm.3000, but during a festive season, the amount will hike to RM 5000. Detailed statistic of Mrs. Ratna’s product sold is in the appendix.

Daily net income

Average Weekly net income

Annual net income

(RM.) 428.57

(RM.) 3000.00

(RM.) 156 000.00

Table 3.5.1 : Estimated Income, Mrs. Ratna Abdullah

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CONCLUSION

As conclusion, the Fish Market (Pasar Ikan) of Central Market Kota Kinabalu is really relevant for marine resources business due to its location on the map. Not only that it is only side by

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side the sea, but also nearby the SAFMA jetty where fishing ships from outside Sabah anchored and sell their marine products. Due to the love for seafood in Sabah, causing outside forces attracted to us. The Central Market Kota Kinabalu has become really popular despite the place not intended and prepared as a force in tourism. With its strategic and effective whereabout, it has become what it has today. Not to mention with extra help from the Philippines immigrants for making the place really alive resulting in occurrence of another name for the Kota Kinabalu Central Market that is Philippine Market (Pasar Filipina). The name itself had helped in attracting visitors into the place. In the research we had noticed the presence of more than 15 fish vendor and we had interviewed a total of five of them regarding their business and the type of marine life product the sell. We noticed that most of them bought their product from wholesale at SAFMA and then selling them back to gain profit. Different types of marine resources has different amount of price per kilograms due to their sizes and freshness. The types that they sell are product such as ‘Basung fish’, ‘Basung Bulat’, ‘Ikan Merah’, crabs (Ketam Nipah), Salted Fish (Ikan Masin), Sea Cucumber and shells. The amount of estimated weight sold in annual is mostly the same for a few of them But not the net income. Since each vendor has different types of resources sold and with different amount of price for their product per kilograms, it was estimated that their net income for a year also not the same. Not to mention of the presence of other catalyst such as Monsoon season, causing the change of price in their product where they have to increase them due to lack of resources at such time. Marine life’s contribution to humankind is indispensable. Not onl...