Authors : Rahim Darma, Letty Fudjaja and A. Nixia Tenriawaru
Abstract: Indonesia as a maritime country, coastal and marine has potential economic sector to improve the welfare of coastal communities. One activity that can encourage economic activities of the coastal communities is the development of integrated enterprises between the aquaculture and fishing with processing. All of the processing that is integrated with the cultivation and fishing provides the benefits to coastal communities such as integration with the enterprises of catfish crackers, seaweed dodol with seaweed cultivation, curing fish, dried fish and fish balls producers. The main actors of fishery processing enterprises are the women or the wifes of fishermen. The integration of these enterprises creates an increased in revenues through the increases of value added, price of fresh fish and price stability of the fish. This activity encourages an optimal utilization of coastal resources, gender relation, strenghtening fishermen group and support simultaneously the conservation of fishery resources. Therefore, these integrated enterprises could be recommended as a model of economic empowerment for the coastal communities.
Rahim Darma, Letty Fudjaja and A. Nixia Tenriawaru, 2018. Fishery Based-Processing Enterprises Integration for the Coastal Community Development. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 588-595.