Abstract:
The research was conducted on Desember 2010 in the Village of Tanah Merah Tanjung Pasir
District Indragiri Hilir regency Riau Province. This researc haims to know the level
motivation fishermen and the relationship characteristics (age, education, number of familiy,
experience and income). Total respondent is 30 people. Respondent was taken by simple
random sampling method. To know motivation level fishermen was using by likert scale and
the relationship between characteristics with motivation level was using by analysis coefisian
contigensi and data were processed by a SPSS 11,5 program. The result showed that
motivation rate of the fishermen Duano is “Medium” (score 2792). There are according to
coefisien contigensi there were relationship between all factor fisherman characteristic to
motivation except income factor.
