UKURAN KEPADATAN DAN POTENSI IKAN BARONANG TOMPEL (Siganus guttatus Bloch 1787) DI TELUK KOTANIA SERAM BAGIAN BARAT

Spotted rabbitfish (Siganus guttatus Bloch 1787) are valuable commercial fish species. Research on the species has been carried out in waters of Kotania Bay, aiming to obtain information about size, density and potential Data collected total length (TL), weight number individual at four observation stations using 120m bottom gillnet with mesh size 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 dan 3.5 inches. The is operated a circle that starting two hours before low tide then spotted caught tide. results showed range 11,3 – 33,9 cm which dominated by sizes 18, 24 26 cm. Mean 209 individual/ha, so abundance area seagrass beds 823.62 ha was estimated as 172.486 individual, it’s 72,51% or 125.070 individuals those fishes spawned for first time. mean this 533,51 grams, calculated biomass 66,73 tons MSY value 33,365 wet season.