FIRST RESPONDENT

Figure 1: first respondent Mr. Eljan

Our first respondent is Mr. Eljan, a twenty-seven years old man. Mr. Eljan said that
even he just a worker there he knows everything about the business because he has
been working there for years. The type of marine resources Mr. Eljan sell are from
shellfish types which are crabs and shells. He told us the most popular between the
two marine resources are the crabs but the shells also no less popular because certain
people like eating shells. From our observation the price of crabs sell are not the same,
the price of the crabs depends on the size of the crabs but Mr. Eljan said that not only
the size of the crabs affect the price but also the quality of the crabs. There is RM20
per kilo and RM30 per kilo depending on the size and quality of the crabs. For 1kg of
the shells he sell for RM10

Mr. Eljan said that the income they get is not constant since there is time where many
customers come to buy his marine resources and there also time only a few customers
come. In this business how to attract the customer is important he said. In a day
Mister Eljan can sell from 30kg to 70kg of his marine resources but there is also days
where he sell less than 30kg. From the selling, in average he get RM1000 in a day
roughly. In a month, he sell around 1000kg of his marine resources and the net
income he get is around RM4000. So annually the net income estimated is RM48,000
with 20,000kg marine resources sold.
 Table 1 : The estimated total weigh sold and net incomes for Mr. Eljan

AVERAGE

Daily Monthly Annually

Total Net income Total weight Net income Total weight Net income
weight sold (RM) sold (kg) (RM) sold (kg) (RM)
(kg)
50 1000 1000 4000 20,000 48,000

SECOND RESPONDENT

Figure 2: One of marine resources sell by Ms. Fazira

Our second respondent’s name is Ms. Fazira, she is eighteen years old who works
under her boss the real owner of the business. Ms. Fazira said that she has been
working there for a year since she stop study. The types of marine resources she sell
are crabs, shells and clamps which they get from supplier in Sandakan. She said that
the crabs have different price depending on the size and the freshness of the crabs.
From the figure 2 there is three different price which is RM15 per kilo, RM20 per kilo
and RM25 per kilo while for the both shells and clamps the price is RM10 per kilo.
The total weight sold of the marine resources is around 51kg to 100k in a day and she
said they can get more than RM1000 sometimes but averagely the incomes she get in
a day is RM1100. In monthly statistic, averagely she sell 1000kg and the net incomes is
RM5500. Ms. Fazira said that even though she has only works there in short amount of
time she know the annually statistic because her boss told her about it. In a year,
averagely the net incomes they get exceed RM50,000 and the total weight of the
marine resources they sold is 25,000kg. Same as the other fish vendors, Ms. Fazira is
concern about their selling because sometimes the incomes they get is not constant.

Table 2 : The estimated total weigh sold and net incomes for Ms. Fazira
AVERAGE

Daily Monthly Annually

Total weight Net incomes Total weight Net incomes Total weight Net incomes
sold (Kg) (RM) sold (Kg) (RM) sold (Kg) (RM)

60 1100 1000 5500 25,000 50,000