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Analysis of the Performance of Northern and Southern Provinces in the Fisheries Sector
A. Arabshahi Karizi ,
Volume 7, Issue 3 (9-2018)
Abstract
Aims: Iran has many potential and opportunities for the development of aquaculture with the goal of producing and diversifying food, improving food security, non-oil exports, foreign exchange, and most importantly, generating productive employment directly and indirectly. The aim of this study was to analyze the performance of the northern and southern provinces in the fisheries sector.
Instruments and Methods: In this descriptive study, provinces including Bushehr, Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Golestan, Guilan, Mazandaran, and Hormozgan were examined by Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) and, in particular, the prioritization technique based on the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The data were collected, using the 2015 Statistical Yearbook of Fisheries Organization and the Statistical Yearbook of Iran. Multi-attribute decision making (MADM) was used to analyze the data.
Findings: Based on the statistics used and the selected indices, Mazandaran had the best performance in the fisheries sector among the provinces. Guilan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Bushehr, and Golestan provinces were in the next ranks.
Conclusion: In the fisheries sector, Mazandaran province has the best performance among the provinces of Guilan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Bushehr, and Golestan.

Identifying Attractive Fisheries-Tourism Activities in the Caspian Sea Coastline: Using Delphi Technique

Volume 26, Issue 1 (1-2024)
Abstract
Fisheries tourism is one of the types of tourism that has not received much attention in Iran, despite its good status. The benefits of the tourism industry with the high potential of the fisheries and fishing industry can provide an ideal option to connect the two industries in order to leave the difficult conditions of the fishery areas and move toward development. The first step in planning for fisheries tourism development is to accurately identify the potentials and fisheries' attractions to absorb tourists. Thus, the present study aimed to identify the tourists’ attractions of fisheries using a qualitative methodology with an exploratory approach. This research was applied in terms of purpose, and is descriptive and survey in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of this study was relevant subject experts. Using the purposeful snowball sampling method, 23 experts were selected to determine the panel of the experts based on their subject expertise, experiences, and the theoretical adequacy principle. In three rounds, the attractiveness and attractive fisheries activities for tourism were identified using the Delphi technique. In the first round of Delphi, 30 attractions and attractive activities for fisheries tourism were introduced by experts. After the removal of the less important items in the second and third round of Delphi, finally, the consensus was reached about 12 attractions of fisheries tourism, in three categories of fishing and fishery, fisheries industries, and coastal aquaculture.
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