Marketing Efficiency of Economically Important Marine Fish in Malang Regency of East Java, Indonesia

Marketing Efficiency of Economically Important Marine Fish
in Malang Regency of East Java, Indonesia
Zainal Abidin*
Fisheries and Marine Science Faculty, Brawijaya University, Indonesia. *Email:
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
The main marine fish landed in “Pondokdadap” fish port of Malang Regency are
tuna, cakalang, and tongkol fish. This study aimed to analyze marketing
efficiency and fishermen’ share. Quantitative descriptive analysis consists of
margin, cost and efficiency of marketing and fisherman’ share. Three marketing
middlemen: Fish wholesaler, collector, and retailer distribute marine fish
through seven channels. The middlemen do marketing functions except processing.
While, fishermen do only bearing risk function. Almost all marketing channels
are able to minimize marketing cost, except channel III-VII (tongkol fish),
channel I (Gurita) and channel III (cakalang fish). The channel I (tongkol
fish) earns the highest profit for IDR 3977/Kg, followed by channel II of
tongkol fish IDR 3727/Kg, and channel I of tuna fish IDR 3507/Kg. While,
channel IV of tongkol fish earns the lowest profit IDR 37/Kg. Marketing margin
of these fish was lower than fisherman’ share, the marketing efficiency value
was also <5%, it means efficient. But, channel III-VIII (tongkol fish) due
to high operational cost (per Kg fish) spent by small fishermen causes they
earn low fishermen’ share. While, fisherman’s share of tuna, gurita, baby tuna
and cakalang fish are high. The higher marketing efficiency, the higher
fishermen’ share is.
Keywords: Marketing Efficiency, Fishermen’ share, Marine Fish
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