Aceh's traditional Jaloe fisherman

This wooden fishing boat is a means of transportation in fishing in the seaside coast with a distance of about 500 meters from the shoreline.

In mentioning it by the local people of Aceh said as Jaloe Pukat Darat, the jaloe has been utilized by the local community for a long time before the creation of other sophisticated wooden ships.

Even though this sophisticated wooden boat has been utilized by a freelance fisherman, this Jaloe Pukat Darat is still used by the fishing community who incidentally has other jobs besides being a fisherman.

Communities that are part of the fishermen are also people who have other permanent jobs such as,

1. Private worker at a local company
2. Freelance workers are involved in clothing, daily necessities, and casual daily laborers who are part of private companies.
3. Traditional market traders.

Sometimes government employees themselves often work in the trawl field. This can be done because becoming or working as a Pukat Darat fisherman is not time-bound and is not tied to his original work in government, in general government employees do work on holidays such as Sundays, and other national holidays.

Likewise with other private employees, they also become Tukat Darat fishermen when there are vacancies such as government employees themselves.

Being a Pukat Darat fisherman is not bound by time or having a regular time, meaning that they become a Pukat Darat fisherman when there is free time in their daily profession.

Time taken to find fish

If offshore fishermen have a specific sailing time or have sailing times such as going out in the morning and being in the deep sea during operations requires 3 days and 3 nights on the high seas, but Pukat Darat fishermen provide services when there is free time for each individual fisherman himself. In general, they go anchored in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. This happens because the location of the operation is not far from their house and the operating time also takes 1 hour or 2 hours.

This Pukat Darat Fisherman has a crew of 6 people led by a Pawang or Master as an expert team in carrying out fishing activities or when anchored at the seashore at a distance of 500 meters from the shoreline.

The tools used to catch fish

Usually for native fishermen or deep sea fishermen have sophisticated fishing gear or require a large fee in fishing activities or when anchored fish. However, Pukat Darat fishermen only need a trawl with a length of about 1000 meters and divided into two parts about 500 meters on each side of either the trawler right or the left side of the trawl.

Their tools only use simple techniques or traditional techniques in terms of scaring fish with trawl black, so that automatically the fish in the trawl will automatically be led to ke in the trawl container or Koncoong bound at the end of the trawl.

Small fish that were initially confined in their traditional trawl are knitted from ijok plants and if turned into yarn, they frighten the view so that small fish such as anchovies, jeunara, tamban, and other small fish playing at that time at the reef location will be guided by themselves into the container shaped like a Koncoong. So in the end the fish has been trapped in it.

This fishing gear or trawl does not disturb marine biota because the net does not touch the ground or offshore coral reefs.

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Thus presumably an initial explanation of Pukat Darat Fishermen who are still in the Aceh region of Indonesia. Thank you very much.