Aquaculture is expected to continue at a faster growth rate than other major food production sectors due to increases in average per capita intake of animal protein in the form of fish. Due to its increasing importance, the aquaculture sector faces many challenges to produce fish sustainably and this impacts per capita fish consumption levels. Therefore, we project various ship conditions starting from capture fisheries, such as the number of fisheries with various types of models, the second is the quantity of workers in the fisheries sector, the third is from the type of fishing equipment with manual or modern technology, and the fourth is from the level of fishery productivity produced. and at what level the welfare of fishermen is. The discussion of this research is limited to using data from 34 provinces in Indonesia during 2019-2022.
From the results of descriptive statistics, the value of fish consumption in provinces in Indonesia is relatively uneven, especially in several provinces such as Yogyakarta and Lampung with the lowest levels of fish consumption, namely around 35.57 kg per capita and 37.02 kg per capita in 2022. Apart from that The level of fishing productivity in Jogjakarta is classified as very low, namely 7,066.85 tonnes in 2022 with the fishermen’s exchange rate or fishermen’s welfare level below 1 percent (Table 1). From the explanation above, it can be concluded that from a social, economic and technological perspective, fish can be consumed as the main food in married life.
Overall, the volume of fisheries productivity, the number of fishing vessels, the number of fishing fishermen and fishing equipment have a significant correlation and influence on the level of fish consumption in Indonesia, except for the level of welfare of fishermen and fishermen’s fishing households (Table 2) . The government needs to pay attention to how the price index received by fishermen through household consumption, health, transportation, education, as well as rent and other expenses makes fishermen’s fishing less prosperous so that it will have an impact on fishermen’s ability and desire to consume fish, which is the majority of their fishery products , only limited to buying and selling and does not extend to empowering and cultivating fish.