ANALISIS PENDAPATAN NELAYAN DENGAN PENGGUNAAN RUMPON DI PERAIRAN ACEH BARAT

Abstract

The potency of marine resources at West Aceh waters that have coastline 50,55 km with the extent of seawater 80,88 km² are livelihood of coastal community in fisheries capture as an economical activity productively. As economical benchmark, fishermen must used fishing gear including rumpon as attractor for increasing the production and incomes. The research is conducted on April to July 2018. The aim of this research is to determine amount of capture yield and income. The research method by using experimental fishing in small scale fisheries that used rafia rope and traditional rumpon at West Aceh waters. The result showed that capture yield of both of rumpon with capture comodities including pelagic fish with different amount, the profit analysis were obtained 18 trips is Rp. 5.684.700,- with comparison that showed that rafia rope is lower than traditional rumpon with  capture yield as much as 38,5 % from rafia rope and traditional rumpon as much as 61,5 %.