Working Hour Alllocation Strategy In Lobster Grow-Out Farming In Lombok Island

Abstract

Indonesia has dramatically changed in respect to marine management and fisheries resources to create friendlier ecological business environment and boost economic expansion. Interpreting policies in action found difficulty to challenge due to needed to achieve dual goals of fishery production uplifting, while sustainable resource management has improved simultaneously. Lobster industry is one of the casualty bias policies when the government issued of minimum legal size of lobster regulation, wherein this regulation brought to an end the lobster grow-out activities. Those activities has proven that economic sustainability were in progress for family members in coastal communities since they did not need coast of production input for seeds, woof, and empowering families as workforce. The purpose of the study was to explain strategy used in lobster grow-out farming by empowering family to endorse family’s economic sustainability. The study was conducted in Lombok Timur District, Province of Nusa Tenggara Barat by 97 respondents. Sampling technique used was nonprobobility sampling method through snow ball sampling. The data collection instrument used questionnaires and they were analyzed by economic model and formulated using a simultaneous equation through two stages least square. The results concluded that the involvement of all family members in lobster grow-out farming has been unable to yield maximum result and most of them work far below their capacities.