Abstract:
The research had three main objectives. The first objective was to know the characteristics of fish farmer and facilities to aquaculture production. The second was to understand the perception fish farmer on the field facilitator. Correlation between characteristics and perception of fish farmer was also analyzed. Field survey was applied and 95 respondents was interview in the field. The result showed that, the fish farmer characteristics was varied in the area under study; in term of age, education and income, number of family members, pond size, working time and experiences. The majority of fish farmer age in adult categories, education is moderate, and high in income. The next, pond size is big in size (higher than 1000 m2), the family members can categories is middle categories, working time is moderate the categories in 4 until 7 hour in a day, and experience is high more than 10 years. Finally there is correlation between characteristics and perceptions
