Fisheries waste handling to enhanced fishers society economic growth: Blue growth initiative perspective

Abstract

Residual waste processing is an alternative to enhance coastal communities capabilities. This is one of the blue growth initiative programs. Fisheries waste forms are heads, bones, scales, fish entrails, or shells. The purposes of this observation are to provide an alternative way to handling waste produced by scallops to reduce waste, calculate waste treatment product, processing waste shell value and estimate waste processing revenue. The research method uses quantitative descriptive method with a case approach to the management of scallops waste shells in Batang District in Central Java Province. Production of scallop shells in Batang District which can be processed into Ca flour is estimated as much as 9.17 tons per year. Gross income approximately IDR 45,788,080.00 per year. It is an alternative product as a community side job around the shellfish waste landfill area and resolves the problem of shell waste in Batang District.