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Fisheries industry is importance as the main source of national food security. The fisheries industry has long played a significant role in uplifting the socioeconomic status of Malaysia’s rural communities. Coastal fishermen are currently undergoing a number of changes. Global development policies towards coastal fisheries shifted to focus on combating and eradicating poverty and climate change. This paper aims to address the main challenges among coastal fishermen in Malaysia – poverty and climate change and makes recommendations for the future development. Information Communication Technology (ICT) play the following roles in information exchange, knowledge sharing, promotion of education, monitoring illegal fishing and price information provisioning to the coastal fishermen. There are many potential benefits offered by the advance of the fishing ICT such as GPS, mobile phone and echo sounder. It is essential to expose the advance and modern technology to the rural community especially the fisherman community. Thus, this paper will reveal several potential ICT tools for coastal fishermen to encounter the challenges.
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To Cite this Article: Mazuki, R., Samah, A. A., Bolong, J., & Idris, K. (2020). The Challenges of Technology Usage Among Coastal Fishermen in Malaysia: Review. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10(16), 392–400.
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