Table 8.

Causes of market loss of marine fisheries.

Causes	Market loss		Rank
	Kg/MT	%
Excess supply	29.35	28.53	I
Lower demand	24.28	23.60	II
Delayed marketing	12.26	11.92	III
Use of insufficient ice and insulated container	8.83	8.59	IV
Other causesa	5.82	5.65	V
Fish damaged during transportation period for pressure	5.79	5.63	VI
Delayed receiving at arath after harvesting fish or high temperature	3.99	3.88	VII
Fish damaged during loading and unloading period	3.13	3.04	VIII
Lengthy bidding time in high temperature	2.92	2.83	IX
Wrong icing procedure	1.11	1.08	X
Attack by insects	1.04	1.01	XI
Unavailability of storage input material such as ice and processing materials	0.93	0.90	XII
Insufficient market information such as supply, price etc.	0.66	0.64	XIII
Discolour of fish for open hand handling	0.63	0.61	XIV
Unhealthy environment	0.58	0.56	XV
Wrong time market supply of fish	0.50	0.48	XVI
Lack of communication and transportation facility	0.39	0.37	XVII
Limitation of buyers and sellers purchasing power	0.37	0.36	XVIII
Intentionally delayed purchasing fish by businessman	0.32	0.31	XIX

^aOther causes – All causes which is not mentioned in the table.