Sustainable stingray stock (Dasyatis sp.) in Malacca Strait, Serdang Bedagai Regency

Abstract

Sustainable stingray stock catches and increasing the potential that these fish populations may become overfished this may have a negative impact on the size of fish stocks. In order to estimate stock models and prospective resources of stingrays in the seas of the Malacca Strait, the descriptive technique was utilized to collect secondary data. The necessary to conduct stock dynamics research that examines the exploitation rate of stingrays. Based on the Schaefer model, obtained the value of sustainable potential (MSY) for Stingray resources (Dasyatis sp.) at Tanjung Beringin fishing port of 37,24625 tons/year and the optimum effort value of 148,6119 trips/ years. The percentage of stingray resource utilization rate which landed in Tanjung Beringin TPI during the last 5 years has an average value of 0,925% and an effort level of 1,234%. TAC is 29,797 tons/year, shows that fishing can still be increased to get more optimal results. The value of the allowable catch must be below the MSY value which is 80%. The average allowable catch of stingray (Dasyatis sp.) is 80% of the MSY. This means that fishermen’s catches can still be optimized, but must not exceed MSY limit.