Potensi, Tingkat Pemanfaatan dan Keberlanjutan Ikan Sebelah (Psettodes spp.) di Perairan Selat Malaka, Kabupaten Serdang Bedagai, Sumatera Utara

Abstract

Sebelah fish (Psettodes spp.) included into demersal fish, which live in swallow waters and flat bottom. This fish can be caught using fish net, drift gill nets, and gill nets fixed. The purpose of this study was to determine the potential of sustainable with optimum effort, utilization rates and insistence, sustainability and management of fish resources in Malacca Strait. The analysis of secondary data from 2009 – 2013 obtained from the Department of Marine and Fisheries Serdang Bedagai regency and Department of Marine and Fisheries North Sumatera province, and primary data obtained by performed questionnaires correspondent with the fishermen about the sustainability of Sebelah fish. The potential prediction performed with Fox model. The result shown that MSY was 1.679.092 kg/year and optimum effort was 29.162 trips/year. Average utilization rate of 58,76%, with an average rate of 54,90% insistence, while allowable catch 1.343.273 kg/year. The dimensional ecological sustainability, social and ethical of Sebelah fish included in the sustainable category. The economic dimension included in the fairly continuous category and technological dimensions included in the unsustainable category. The management efforts was by selectivity of fishing gear, disallowance of fishing gear and control of fishing effort.