Empowering fisherismen's wives in diversifying fishery products in Tanjung Medang Village, Bengkalis District, Riau, Indonesia

Abstract

Tanjung Medang is one of villages which have high fishery potency in Rupat utara district. Some of people in this village are fisherment (235 person) of 95 families. Most of fisherment wives do not have additional job beside as hoese wives. To accelarate the economic development of peopole in Desa Tanjung Medang base on local potency is increase knowledge in product diversification of fish products. Method was lecturing and practical work, training, workshop with local people in order to produce qualified and nutrions fish products by appropriate technology, transfering knowledge and instruction to fishermen wives concerning production method in accordance with the standard. Twenty participants of fisherment wives involved were very enthusiasthic and active, 20 participants participated inpreparing all fish product. Discussion between participants and trainers was very intens, mainly, if these was problems in preparing the fish products. It was know that 15 participants had never got such training, two of five participants who had been trained before have fish cracker businiss. Most of the fisherment families eat fish everyday, and only one family have fish three times in a week. Seventeen participants said that the training was very usefull and three participants said it was useful.