Socio-economic structure of fishermen of Yeni Karpuzlu Dam Lake.

In this study, socio-economic structure of fishermen in Yeni Karpuzlu Dam Lake was investigated between May 2011 and May 2012. Questionnaires were applied to 22 fishermen by visiting the region three times. At the end of the study, the age distribution of the fishermen were mentioned between 20 and 59; maximum number of fishermen was found between 40 and 49 ages with 40.90% and minimum number of fishermen’s ages were between 20 and 29 ages with 9.09 %. 9.09% of the fishermen were single, 90.91% of them were married. 95.45% of them have elementary school graduate and 4.55% of them have high school graduate. 54.55% of the fishermen have 5.0-5.99 m lenght fishing boats and 9.09% of them have 4.00-4.99 m lenght fishing boats. 18.19% of the boats have no engines and 36.36 % of them have 8-11 HP engines. Most number of the fishermen (% 63.63) notified that they were happy to do that job. None of the fishermen don’t want to their children prefer to fishing.