FISHERMEN’S PERCEPTION IN SUPPORTING THE USAGE OF SUSTAINABLE FISHING EQUIPMENT IN BANDA SAKTI SUBDISTRICT OF LHOKSEUMAWE CITY

Abstract

Indonesian marine waters store abundant potential of non-biological resources. The population of Lhoksumawe consists of fishermen which have 1,827 people, all of whom are engaged in fisheries whose territory and catch are from the Malacca Strait waters. The purpose of this study was to examine the fishermen's perceptions in Banda Sakti Subdistrict, Lhokseumawe City on the utilization of sustainable fishing equipment and analyze the relationship of socio-economic characteristics with fishermen's perceptions of the utilization of sustainable fishing equipment. The method used in this study is a quantitative method that is using the class interval formula to see the level of perception and Rank Spearman correlation analysis to see the relationship that occurs. The results showed the level of perceptions of fishermen on the utilization of sustainable or environmentally friendly fishing equipment is high, with perceptual score values within the range > 224-288. Meanwhile, the socio-economic characteristics that have a relationship with the perceptions of fishermen are in the variables: income, number of dependents and socialization; namely the perception of the level of selectivity and the level of security of fishing equipment. The level of correlation in the income variable and the number of dependents on selectivity fishing equipment has a low level of correlation within the range of 0.20-0.399. Only on the socialization variable on the perception of fishing equipments’ security is at a moderate level of correlation; with the correlation coefficient value of 0.571. For other variables, the level of correlation coefficient is very low with a significance value of> 0.05.

Keywords

• Socio-economic characteristics
• perception
• sustainable fishing equipment
• Banda Sakti