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Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Malaysia is one of the top ten countries in the world that produce freshwater ornamental fishes. This industry can offer better livelihood opportunities to many poor households. However, most of the produced ornamental fishes are alien to Malaysia. In this study, we explore the contribution of alien...

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Autores principales: Saba, Abdulwakil Olawale, Ismail, Ahmad, Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir, Shohaimi, Shamarina, Azmai, Mohammad Noor Amal
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7811282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10643
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author Saba, Abdulwakil Olawale
Ismail, Ahmad
Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir
Shohaimi, Shamarina
Azmai, Mohammad Noor Amal
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Ismail, Ahmad
Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir
Shohaimi, Shamarina
Azmai, Mohammad Noor Amal
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description Malaysia is one of the top ten countries in the world that produce freshwater ornamental fishes. This industry can offer better livelihood opportunities to many poor households. However, most of the produced ornamental fishes are alien to Malaysia. In this study, we explore the contribution of alien freshwater fishes to the income of ornamental fish store owners and their attitude towards alien freshwater fishes within Klang Valley, Malaysia. Using a structured questionnaire, we surveyed 70 pet stores out of which 54 (81.42%) store owners responded. Most of the pet store owners were male (72%), Chinese (83%), and the highest educational level was at the secondary level (79%). Most of the pet store owners reported a monthly income of RM 2001–RM 5000 (78%) and were married (73%). Using Chi-square (χ(2)) test, significant relationships (p < 0.05) existed between the attitude of store owners towards alien ornamental fish species versus educational level (χ(2) = 16.424, p = 0.007) and contribution of alien ornamental fishes to the pet store owners’ income (χ(2) = 27.266, p = 0.003). Fish sales as the main income source also related significantly with the impact of fish selling business on income level (χ(2) = 10.448, p = 0.007). This study showed that the ornamental fish sales contributed over half of the income (51–100%) from the businesses of store owners. Almost half of the respondents (42%) reported that alien ornamental fish was the highest contributor to their income from the ornamental fish sale. While the mismanagement of alien ornamental fishes could give various negative ecological impacts, the socio-economic benefits of these fishes cannot be denied.
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spelling pubmed-78112822021-01-28 Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia Saba, Abdulwakil Olawale Ismail, Ahmad Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir Shohaimi, Shamarina Azmai, Mohammad Noor Amal PeerJ Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science Malaysia is one of the top ten countries in the world that produce freshwater ornamental fishes. This industry can offer better livelihood opportunities to many poor households. However, most of the produced ornamental fishes are alien to Malaysia. In this study, we explore the contribution of alien freshwater fishes to the income of ornamental fish store owners and their attitude towards alien freshwater fishes within Klang Valley, Malaysia. Using a structured questionnaire, we surveyed 70 pet stores out of which 54 (81.42%) store owners responded. Most of the pet store owners were male (72%), Chinese (83%), and the highest educational level was at the secondary level (79%). Most of the pet store owners reported a monthly income of RM 2001–RM 5000 (78%) and were married (73%). Using Chi-square (χ(2)) test, significant relationships (p < 0.05) existed between the attitude of store owners towards alien ornamental fish species versus educational level (χ(2) = 16.424, p = 0.007) and contribution of alien ornamental fishes to the pet store owners’ income (χ(2) = 27.266, p = 0.003). Fish sales as the main income source also related significantly with the impact of fish selling business on income level (χ(2) = 10.448, p = 0.007). This study showed that the ornamental fish sales contributed over half of the income (51–100%) from the businesses of store owners. Almost half of the respondents (42%) reported that alien ornamental fish was the highest contributor to their income from the ornamental fish sale. While the mismanagement of alien ornamental fishes could give various negative ecological impacts, the socio-economic benefits of these fishes cannot be denied. PeerJ Inc. 2021-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7811282/ /pubmed/33520451 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10643 Text en © 2021 Saba et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Saba, Abdulwakil Olawale
Ismail, Ahmad
Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir
Shohaimi, Shamarina
Azmai, Mohammad Noor Amal
Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia
title Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_full Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_fullStr Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_short Economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_sort economic contribution and attitude towards alien freshwater ornamental fishes of pet store owners in klang valley, malaysia
topic Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7811282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10643
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