Study On The Hull Forms Of Fishing Vessels From Several Areas In Indonesia

Abstract

The Indonesian fishing vessels have some variation in their hull forms. In general, the variation comes from the boat builder style in building a vessel. This usually happen in the tradisional shipyard, where there is no standard in the building process. They use only an experience from prevoius generation. Theoritically, the hull form of the vessel should be confirmed with the fisihing gear and method, target species, sea condition, etc. The differences in those factors might influence the hull form. This paper discusses about the hull form identification in some areas in Indonesia and its differences in fishing operation method as well. The body plans of fishing vessel are obtained through the literatures. The results showed that 21 body plans of the hull forms can be grouped into 5 (five) hull form type i.e:round bottom, round flat bottom, hard chin bottom,"V" bottom and "Akatsuki" bottom. From the fishing method point of view, there is no significant difference towards the hull form of the fishing vessel.