59.9 Correlating mariculture and household income generation: a case of panggang island initiative

local community. There are three research questions that the study aims to answer, those are: 1. What are the factors that determine household participation in project activities? 2. What are the project impacts on household income generation? 3. What are other benefits and constraints of the project subjectively felt by community members? Research Objectives Given that research questions on previous section, the objectives of this ex- post study are: 1. To identify which factors determine household participation in the project activities. 2. To depict the project contribution to poverty alleviation by analyzing its impacts on household income as well as describing benefits and constraints of the project subjectively felt by community members. Significance of the Study This study would be useful as: 1. Inputs for development strategy of sea farming in Panggang Island to achieve its goal, particularly in increasing local community ’s welfare and alleviating poverty. 2. Inputs for policy making related to sea farming in Panggang Island and other areas. 3. Reference for further research. Scope and Limitations of the Study Mariculture activity is the focus of this study; other activities such as capture fisheries, post-harvest, marketing, and eco-tourism, are excluded. In this study, one period refers to nine months. It used culture period of brown marbled grouper as the standard to calculate total income in one period because: 1. Income from aquaculture production does not take place every month due to seasonality. Meanwhile, income from capture fisheries and other activities take place daily or monthly. 2. Not all fish farmers in Panggang Island are culturing humpback grouper due to several reasons, i.e. more limited fingerling stock, more expensive fingerling price, and more complicated to treat. Some limitations of this study are: 1. It does not have baseline survey for more accurate before-after comparison. It used a recall method for several household asset ownership variables to provide information of pre-project situation of both groups participants and non-participants.