Distribution of sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a concentration its correlation with small pelagic fish catch in Dodinga Bay

Abstract

Current technology development provides us convenience through utilization of data time series to improve fish catch production, which may also be performed in Dodinga Bay through an oceanographic factor analysis on small pelagic fish catch aiming at examining the role of oceanographic factors and their correlation with the distribution of small pelagic fish. The use of fishing experimental method for data collection, image analysis, statistical analysis and their interpretation is expected to answer the research objective for optimized wild fishery production. The research finds that simultaneously sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a significantly influence pelagic fish catch with Fhit value 90.403 and significance 0.000, while partially surface temperature and chlorophyll-a are the oceanographic factors which contribute to the distribution of small pelagic fish in Dodinga Bay with r square value 0.8525 for sea surface temperature and 0.6966 for chlorophyll-a.