Fishermen’s Household Characteristics in Bunaken National Park Area, North Sulawesi Province

Abstract

This study was aimed at knowing and analyzing the fishermen's household characteristics in Bunaken National Park. It used survey method through structured interviews in order to obtain primary data of the fisheries business owner's and boat crew's households. The secondary ones were also collected from the office of Marine and Fisheries Services at the provincial, regency, and municipality levels for 2006 - 2010, Fishermen's household sampling was carried out with cluster and multi stage random sampling. Results showed that fishing, post-harvest and non-fisheries activities of the owner's household per working period were higher than those of the boat crews. In contrast, the working opportunity of the owner's household in fishing, post- harvest, and non-fisheries was lower than that of crew's household. The average income from fishing, post- harvest, and non-fisheries for the owner's household was higher than that of the crew's household. Based on the average number of the owner's households as many as 3.5 people and of the crew's as many as 3 people, the income per capita was IDR 14.365 million/year or an average of IDR. 1.197 million/month for the owner's household and IDR 4.5 million/year or an average of IDR 0.375 million/month for the crew's household, respectively. This monthly income per capita of the owner's household is above the average minimum wage, while that of the crew's household is below the average minimum wage.