The late afternoon, when the dance is felt to warmly touch the skin. For fishermen such as Mosfa, that is the time she prepares his wooden boat to immediately squeeze. Mosfa is a floating bagan owner in Purworejo Village, Bonang District, Demak Regency, Jateng. Along with the crew and the nelayan workers will shed the sea journey for approximately three hours to the chart next to the north of the Demak waters.
When the sunset, a number of built-in diesel generator powered floodlights. 1,000 to 1,500 watts capacity lights are used to attract fish attention to the light. In the way royong the fishermen began to lower the net that has been installed in the bag of an area of 25x23 meters.
"Allahumma sholli ala Muhammad!? teriak one of the fishermen then welcomed his colleague, "Allahumma sholli alaih". Then they together lower the net while praying the results of abundant fish catch. Overnight, the floating bag can be taught twice to three times with the target of the breeding fish among other teri (Stolephorus sp). In addition, there is also the result of side catches in the form of fish embang (Clupea sp), layur (Trichiurus sp), bloating (Rastrelliger sp), cellar (Caranx sp), squi-cumi (Loligo sp) and sotong (Sephia sp).
Mosfa (center) with a number of nelayan workers headed to his own floating bag in Demak waters, Central Java.
A nelayan labor improves the installation of the spotlight above the chart in the Demak waters, Central Java.
If the weather is good and supporting, the fishermen is able to produce a tericidal fish catch up to three tons for a single melaut. With the condition, teri fish is usually sold at Rp400 thousand per basket of 50 kilograms. But if the wave is high, sometimes they only get one to four spins only. So they are forced to raise sales prices up to Rp700 thousand per 50 kilograms.
? Once I took the capital of Rp1.5 million for marine transportation logistics purposes, eating carmen and solar fuel. The output system is 50 percent for the owner of the bagan 50 percent again for the crew and the nelayan labor amounted to 7 to 10 people?, said Mosfa.
During the first semester of 2018, the Marine Office and the Fishery of Demak Regency recorded the production of the capture fisheries in the region reached 2.5 million kilograms with a transaction value of Rp63,35 billion or increased Rp36,66 billion compared to the same period in 2017. Photo and Text: Styawan Aji
Nelayan raised salat on the bagan apung in the Demak waters, Central Java.
Nelayan ignite the highlight lights installed between bamboos of the floating bag in the Demak waters, Central Java.
The people of cooking fishermen for dinner his peers in the Demak waters, Central Java.
Musafa (second left) dine dinner with fishermen workers on the waters of Demak, Central Java.
A number of sleep fishermen on the apung bag in the Demak waters, Central Java.
A board painted years of manufacturing a floating bag in Demak waters, Central Java.
A number of car hired fishermen royong attracts a floating bag net in the Demak waters, Central Java.
A number of fish is taught a floating bag in Demak waters, Central Java.
A number of fishermen sorts of fish catch in Demak waters, Central Java.
The fishermen are preparing back to the ground to sell the fish catch to the Morodemak Beach Fishery Port in Demak, Central Java.
The work reflects the results of the teri fish catch of the floating chart fisher in the Morodemak Beach Fishery Port, Bonang, Demak, Central Java.
The queue to buy the results of the teri fish catch from the fishermen of the floating chart at the Morodemak Beach Fishery Port, Bonang, Demak, Central Java.
Editor : Prasetyo Utomo
