Abstract

• A total of 21 species (18 genera) belonging to 15 families, and 6 orders of collected commercial fishes were identified from fish landing sites of Thae-Chaung Area, Sittwe Township, Rakhine State from October 2022 to September 2023. The order of Perciformes was abundant possessing families, genus and species. Among them, the seabass, Lates calcarifer is exported to foreign countries. The species Stolephorus commersonnii (Nga-ni-tu) is a very popular dry fish species in Myanmar. The most widely used gears in the study area include cast nets, drift gill nets, bag nets, trammel nets, seine nets, man push nets, upright fish traps and lone line. Gill nets were larger in size and mesh size and higher in price and catch composition than other gears such as traps, surrounding nets, and hooks and lines. Thae-Chaung has an economy based on catching fish and producing dry fish.