Catch Fish Profile at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port, East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province

East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province has many business potentials in the marine and fisheries sectors, especially fish as a commodity. East Flores District is one of the fish landing centers for fishing vessels in the East Nusa Tenggara Province. The objective of this study was to determine the activities of fishing vessels and to find out the catches that have been landed at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port. The location of this study was determined by purposive sampling, while the research location was carried out at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port. This research was conducted in July-October 2021. A descriptive survey was chosen as the data collection method by conducting direct observations in the field such as giving interviews and distributing questionnaires to the fishermen and Amagarapati Fish Landing Port’s employees. The results of this study showed that fishing activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port were running normally as usual even though Implementation of restrictions on community activities (PPKM) was implemented in East Flores Regency, the fish caught were dominated by Skipjack, Mackerel Tuna, Tuna, Mackerel Scad, and Atlantic Menhaden. There was an obstacle in the decline in fish prices due to the decline in people's purchasing power, tuna exports to the United States experienced a decline due to the lockdown destination countries. The catch that landed at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port 2,527.5 Tons of catches were reduced due to bad weather, the availability of fish bait for pole and line vessels was limited so that it hampered fishing activities.


Introduction
The restoration of the marine economy with a marine resource management approach based on the Blue Economy principle will support the sustainability of natural resources, ecosystem balance, and environmental health, and encourage the resources management to promote economic growth effectively. Marine resources are expected to be the pillar in increasing the national income in the future. They include the resources from the fisheries, energy and mineral, coastal and small islands, and conventional resources. Breakthrough efforts to realize the marine economy as a support for the national economy are optimized by designing the fishermen as the main actors in the EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) and offshore fisheries, to transform the small scale fisheries to have economic additional value (KKP, 2021).
The potential of business and investment in the marine and fisheries sectors in East Nusa Tenggara Province has a promising opportunity. As well as having high potential and competitive commodities that able to support the investment opportunity to increase the national income significantly. The potential of fisheries in East Nusa Tenggara in 2015 was quite high but the management was still low. Only about 40% of the sustainable potential with the main catches of pelagic fish, i.e. 3,901 tons of tuna, 12,114 tons of skipjack tuna, 1,868 tons of narrowbarred Spanish mackerel, 3,836 tons of Indian Mackerel and domestic fish specifically were groupers of 4,790 tons, 3,916 tons of snappers, and 1,654 tons of squids. The number of registered fishermen in East Nusa Tenggara Province is 53,967 people (KKP, 2018).
East Flores Regency is one of the fish landing centers for fishing vessels in the East Nusa Tenggara Province. East Flores Regency has six fishing industry units located in Larantuka District. Types of pelagic fish that are landed e.g., yellowfin tuna, baby tuna, skipjack and tuna. The fishermen group in East Flores Regency are dominated by the fishermen who use pole and line fishing gears and purse seines to catch fish (Utami, 2015). In 2018, 15,958 tons of marine products were landed at the fishing ports located in 19 sub-districts in the East Flores Regency. Amagarapati Fish Landing Port is located in Larantuka sub-district and it has landed 5,677 tons of fish caught. This sub-district is one of the largest fish landing in East Flores Regency waters (BPS, 2018).
Identifying fisherman catches, including activities of types of catch, size of fish caught, and bycatch of fishermen, can provide a basic overview of aspects of sustainable fisheries management (Kondjol et al, 2020) To find out the diversity of fish in a waters, it is necessary to identify fish using a key of determination (Primawati, 2016). The scientific data and information that have been obtained regarding the types of fish caught by fishermen are one of the supports for the preservation of fish species in the area. The diversity of fish species is also one of the initial information considerations in determining the management policy of an area (Katarina, 2019).
The purpose of this research is find out the types of fish caught and the number of fishing vessels that operate in the East Flores Regency seawater, it is necessary to have research to determine the activities of fishing vessels and their landed catches at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port.

Materials and Methods
This research uses descriptive method. Descriptive research is a research method that describes the characteristics of the population or phenomenon being studied. The main focus of this research method is to explain the object of research, while the events and phenomena referred to here are the object of researchThe location of this study was determined by purposive sampling which is a non-random sampling technique whom the researcher will determine the special characteristics of the research objects based on the research problems formulation. The research location was carried out at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port, Larantuka District, East Flores Regency as a fish landing center for fishermen in East Flores Regency seawaters. The data used in this study was the catch data of the fishermen at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port in 2020. The data analyzed are fish caught from purse seine vessels, pole and line vessels and collecting vessels while the size of the vessels measuring from 10-30 GT.
Amagarapati Fish Landing Port is located in a coastal area with natural and marine resources, East Flores Regency ( Figure 1) is located at a position of 800 337' 094 "South Latitude to 1220 992' 125" East Longitude. This research was conducted in July-October 2021. The data collection was conducted by using a descriptive survey method in the form of an interview using questionnaires that addressed the fishermen and Amagarapati Fish Landing Port's employees. The secondary data was obtained from the reports of the Marine and Fisheries Resources Monitoring Unit of East

Amagarapati Fish Landing Port
Amagarapati Fish Landing Port is an aid from the Japanese people to Indonesia as a form of friendship between the two countries. Amagarapati Fish Landing Port grew and developed into a fishing port that is quite large and plays an important role as a center for fisheries activities that supply most of the fish needs in the NTT region. Amagarapati Fish Landing Port has the main task of managing existing facilities and infrastructure in the port area, as well as carrying out services for all fishing activities. Meanwhile, the function of Amagarapati Fish Landing Port which is based on PERMENKP Number: PER.08/MEN/2012 concerning fishery ports is: (1). Carry out services and arrangement of mooring places for fishing vessels carrying out loading and unloading activities at the PPI Amagarapati dock, (2) Supervising and controlling the landing, marketing/sales activities, processing of fishermen and fishery business actors who carry out activities at the port as well as controlling and the withdrawal of levies on the object of activity in Amagarapati Fish Landing Port.
Based on the table 2, Amagarapati Fish Landing Port has good facilities in carrying out services and supervision of loading and unloading activities in East Flores waters. There is a jetty with a length of 60 meters, a breakwater, a Port Pool Area with a size of 2100 m2, electrical installations with a capacity of 23,000 KVA, SPDN with a capacity of 15,000 liters and others. However, there are also facilities that are not yet operational, including fish auction and vessels repair dock buildings, this is because Amagarapati Fish Landing Port does not yet have field implementing officers and lacks of supporting facilities in managing these facilities. Then there are also problems related to operational costs if these facilities are activated, so why are some of these facilities not operating yet. The ice factory facilities also suffered damage from two main engine units, only one machine was functioning, the other was damaged, thus hampering operational activities.

Conditions of East Flores Fishermen In Amagarapati Fish Landing Port
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on fishery business in NTT greatly affected the welfare of the community so that it had an impact on around 226,526 people consisting of 66,525 families from all over the NTT region (Mongabay, 2020). This is due to a decrease in the value of fishery production in NTT, a decrease in the number of fishermen's catches and a decrease in the sale of fish by up to 50%. However, in some areas that are fishery producing center, they still carry out fishing activities, one of which is East Flores Regency.
East Flores Regency is a coastal area that has a tradition that is very close to the ocean and fisheries so that fishermen continue to carry out fishing activities in the midst of limitations and problems in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) does not have a significant impact on fishermen who carry out activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port. Fishermen continue to carry out fishing activities as usual, including the catches of fishermen for local needs such as in Lembata, Maumere and Kupang can be marketed to the community. However, there are indeed other problems faced by fishermen, causing a decrease in catches landed at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port.
The problems faced by fishermen include the decline in fish prices as a result of the decline in people's purchasing power during the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a decrease in sales results, to anticipate losses, fishermen save operational and logistics and reduce the frequency of fishing. Tuna for the export market experienced a decline in shipments because the export destination countries, especially the United States were under lockdown, for plasma fishermen they did not problems like those faced by other fishermen because the catch was directly received by companies around Larantuka. Another problem is the licensing of fishing areas which is considered confusing by fishermen. Among other things, vessels under 30 GT which are the authority of the Province and Regency can only catch fish up to 12 nautical miles, if ships under 30 GT wish to catch fish above 12 nautical miles, they must obtain permission from the ministry of marine affairs and fisheries in Jakarta by providing documents in accordance with applicable regulations. So that the government and regional policy makers are expected to find solutions to increase fishery production during the Covid-19 pandemic era.

Fishing Vessels Fleet Amagarapati Fish Landing Port
There are two types of vessels that carry out activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port, namely fishing vessels and collecting vessels. Fishing Vessels are vessels that specifically carry out fishing activities and cool the caught fish. While the collecting vessels is a vessels used to transport, load and accommodate the caught fish. The ships that carry out activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port consist of three vessels based fish catch equipment, Pole and Line, Purse Seine and collecting (Table 3). In general, the target species of purse seine fishing gear are fish species that live in groups or schooling (Negara, 2019). During 2020 there were 1,123 Operational Eligibility Letters (SLO) The Purse Seine vessels that carry out activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port are 52 vessels with a description of the size of 10-15 GT totalling 29 vessels, 15-20 GT totalling 20 vessels and 20-30 GT totalling 3 vessels. There are 64 pole and line vessels carrying out activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port with information, 10 vessels of 10-15 GT, 7 vessels of 15-20 GT and 47 vessels of 20-30 GT. The collecting vessels are 27 vessels with a description of the size of 10-15 GT totalling 9 vessels, 15-20 GT totalling 5 vessels and 20-30 GT totalling 13 vessels. The total number of vessels carrying out fish landing activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port is 143 vessels.

Fish Caught Amagarapati Fish Landing Port
The types of fish landed at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port are dominated by pelagic fish including Skipjack, Mackerel Tuna, Tuna, Mackerel Scad, and Atlantic Menhaden. The waters in East Flores have abundant marine resources, this is due to the biological and geoecological phenomena of the waters caused by the confluence of water masses from the Flores Sea, Banda Sea and Sawu Sea, water flows from the Indian Ocean and the West and East Monsoons.
The catch of fishermen at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port is dominated by skipjack fish with a total catch of 1,864.4 tons. second, mackerel scad with a total catch of 240 tons. The three atlantic menhaden fish with a total of 213.8 tons. fourth, tuna with a total catch of 157.4 tons and mackerel tuna fish as much as 51.7 tons. Catches in 2020 decreased this was caused by several factors including bad weather in January, February, November and December, people's purchasing power during the Covid-19 pandemic, availability of fuel for ship operations, limited bait from rumpoon so pole and line vessels unable to find fish, and related to licensing of fishing vessels.
Based on the table 3, the average catch from March to October amounted to 260.81 tons, in that period of time is a good fishing time for catching fish. This is due to the completion of the rainy season so that the weather, wind and waves tend to be good and calm for fishermen to carry out activities at sea. The average catch of fishermen in January, February, November and December amounted to 110.25 tons, catches have decreased significantly this was due to differences in air pressure in the northern and southern hemispheres causing strong winds, rainfall and high waves in the NTT region. Due to the change of seasons, fishermen reduce the frequency and even stop fishing to avoid ship accidents at sea. Total fish landings at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port in 2020 amounted to 2,527.5 Tons

Conclusion
Based on the results obtained by the research team, it can be concluded that fish landing activities at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port are running normally as usual, although PPKM is implemented to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it does not affect the activities of fishermen in the East Flores area. The catches of fishermen such as Skipjack, Mackerel Tuna, Mackerel Scad, and Atlantic Menhaden for local needs can be marketed but there is a decrease in selling prices due to the lack of people's purchasing power for fishery products. Then there is the problem of exporting tuna to the United States because the destination country is under lockdown. The catch that landed at Amagarapati Fish Landing Port was 2,527.5 tons, this result showed a decrease in the catch of fishermen. Fishermen's catch is reduced due to bad weather which causes strong winds and high waves so that fishermen do not go to sea, especially in January, February, November and December. The limited availability of bait has hampered fishing activities on pole and line vessels.