2.0 Abstract

North east monsoon winds causing rough seas have prevented the east coast of peninsular malaysia fishermen to go out to sea on monsoon season .There are several issue when we talking about eastern peninsular malaysia`s fishermen especially during north east monsoon season like their  source of income is too depend on fish traders.

This becoming an issue as they losing  their income during  monsoon season .Traditionally these fishermen usually rely an odd job such as repairing main  fishing equipment .This will  support  their economy  a little bit but there is no other activities  that could help to gain their income.The government is trying to help them to create bussines  for the fishermen by providing incentive and loan  to open up business base on aqua marine product but  the program from  the government Is not  too feasible for the community and yet the poverty statistic  is till high.

Aqua-marine tourism is a tool that has been widely used around the world for the purpose of intensifying the socio-economic aspects of the fishermen community . The concept of aqua-marine tourism is a direct expansion of eco-tourism, which encourages visitors to experience aqua-marine  community lifestyle at first hand.Aqua-culture,also known as aqua-farming,is the farming of aquatic organism such as fish ,crustaceans.mollucs and aquatic plants.FAO(2003)The main objective of this paper is to unveil the potential socio-economic benefits that can be offered by the aqua-marine tourism activities to revitalize  and reprogressive fishing communities in monsoon affected area.The paper will carry out the research on how the the existing fishermen off shore program could be hybrided with new affordable high technical aqua-culture program to form unique aqua-marine tourism brand the can give new spark for the fisheries industries.

Beside this ,the study will try to uplift the characteristics of conventional fishing port to be utilized for the project.it is hoped that the aqua marine complex will be significantly recognized as the local aqua marine complex strongly.

Keyword: Aqua-marine tourism ,aqua-culture, fishermen industries,exiting fishermen community,hybrid program, economic viability during monsoon season or during normal season