Conventional fishermen or traditional fishermen have never been separated from the problem of low welfare. This issue has actually been very long time, but never finished. Although the various discourse of this problem has been done by the government, but the traditional fishermen still live in poverty.
Fundamental problems experienced by fishermen are still around that-that's it, among traditional fishermen do not have a fish storage. Due to the absence of cooling warehouses, the catches of fishermen do not have high bargaining power and this condition is used by the middlemen who buy the catch of fishermen at a cheaper price than the results of rotting catch .
In addition, fishermen go to sea still use traditional ships. Low-reaching power so that the impact also on the number of fish catch. compared to fishermen in other countries have adopted modern ships. Another basic problem is the lack of fishermen important information when fishermen want to go to sea, the information is only done by estimation only.
In contrast to the large fishing industry that has more modern tools. While conventional fishing constrained factor capital in addition to low level of education .
