The fishermen of Traditional sea crab catcher

A traditional fisherman paddles his wooden boat to the open sea, using simple equipment that is equipped with adequate fishing gear such as sansi yarn net that has been processed into trawl, with the hope today will be the best day in this activity. That is the hope and prayer of a traditional fisherman every day when he wants to find sustenance.

Not surprisingly, in an age that is sophisticated with high technology it turns out there is still the sea adventurer who has a strong determination to reach his goals in life.

While the tools used are very simple and even categorized as not feasible to carry out such fishing operations in reaching or obtaining fish in the ocean.

Eeiit ... Wait a minute! We should not underestimate the traditional fishermen in their fishing activities, because the fishermen have extraordinary abilities in carrying out operations in the high seas even though they have very simple tools.

Why?

Because these fishermen, have some adequate facilities that are deliberately left at the location of a sea FAD, there are many marine facilities that are able to bring fish home as desired by the fishermen themselves.
This traditional fisherman is a sea crab catcher who often plays on each edge of the FAD which is deliberately installed at a location about 3 kilometers from the beach. Their job is only done two times a day, morning and evening, then what is the mechanism of work?

The work of these traditional fishermen who specifically catch sea crabs has two times a day, namely in the afternoon and in the morning.

1. Afternoon

The mechanism of these traditional fishermen, starting at precisely in the afternoon, precisely at around 04.00, at that time they had prepared all the fishing gear that had been neatly arranged on his ship to start their work. When arriving at the sea (marked location) that has been installed far from the seabed, the net is tethered vertically in a certain direction according to the state of the water at that time, if water is pulled west, the net or trawl stretches vertically to the east, because the crab in the sea will go east and so on depending on the state of the water in the sea.

The work of tethering nets to the surface of the sea or closer to sea trends that have been available previously takes almost 3 hours. Clean tethering work requires more than 1 hour if calculated from the beginning of their departure it takes around 3 hours. Then the net or catch net is left in the ocean all night, then the initial work has been completed, then go home in a wooden boat without a net or net because deliberately left on the seabed for fishing.

2. Morning

Entering the morning or rather at 6:00 in the morning, this traditional fisherman rides a boat to its original location when the net anchored in the sea yesterday afternoon, the paddle trip takes about 1 hour and even if the fishermen paddle in a relaxed state. After arriving at the previous location or yesterday afternoon. Then the net, which had been left all night in the sea, was taken up and carried into its wooden boat.

Then the catch is found, eventually the crab is trapped in a net with a few other small shrimp. In general, trapped sea crabs are still alive and still fresh and the results are very adequate, at least they get around 20 kilograms and sometimes more when there are many crab herds that play near the sea FADs.

The price of fresh sea crabs when sold to traditional markets has a price of 1 kilogram reaching 35 thousand rupiahs, if they get 20 kilograms in one day then this traditional serving has a daily turnover of around 700,000 rupiah.

It does look like they have a very simple fishing gear but they get decent results.