Analysis of relationship between mangrove ecology to fish cultivator in Kertomulyo, Pati

Abstract

Kabupaten Pati is located at north coast of java which has abundant fishery potential. This potential is built by too many factors, and one of them is mangrove ecosystem. Mangrove ecosystem are complex and dynamic. The purposes of this study is to analyze the relationship of mangrove ecosystems on ecological between fish production by fish cultivator at Kertomulyo Pati. The research is located at Kertomulyo Village, Pati. This study uses a quantitative descriptive approach with questionnaire and interview, observation and documentations methods and the target is fisherman who lives near the mangrove ecosystem. The data needed by this research were devided into two sources, primary data and secondary data. Primary data includes the production from fish cultivator and their perception?? about mangrove, secondary data is image from Google Earth and Landsat 8 for vegetation which is needed to know the changes of mangrove’s thickness and growth. The next step is running the data using ArcGis. Then the result of this analysis can be associated with fish cultivator’s production. So, there will be results which is answering the purposes.