Identifikasi Alat Tangkap Ikan Ramah Lingkungan di Desa Bagan Asahan Kecamatan Tanjung Balai

Abstract

District Asahan has a large fishery resources. This issupported by the District Asahan horeline reach to ± 58 km. Bagan Asahan Village sub-district of Tanjung Balai is locatd at the mouth of the Asahan river directly opposite with the Strait of Malacca. Fisherman from Bagan Asahan Village catching fish by using gears. The most widely used fishing gears were gill net, ground gill net, longline, fishing rod, and traps (bubu). The purpose of this research was to identify fishing gear, included in the category ofeco-friendly or not and to find out the production of the fishing gear. Fishing gear that used by fisherman of Bagan Asahan Village included into very environmentally friendly fishing gear and environmentally friendly. The result showed gill net and fishing grod was categorized into a very friendly environment, while the ground gill net, longline and traps was categorized into types of environmentally friendly fishing gear. Overall yield obtained for eachgear was. Gill net yield was 509.7 kg/month, ground gill net was 1469.2 kg/month, longline and fishing grod was 404.89 kg/month and traps (bubu) was 959.6 kg/month