JOM : VOL 2 OKTOBER 20141 Usaha Produksi Kerupuk Ikan Tenggiri Di Kecamatan Karimun Kabupaten Karimun Provinsi Kepulauan Riau Mackerel Fish Cracker Productions Offort In The Karimun District Karimun Regencybriau Archipelago Province Melania Sepra 1 , Eni Yulinda 2 , Lamun Bathara 2 Email : Almelalpa@Yahoo.Com Abstrak This research was conducted in february 2014 ocated in Karimun district Karimun Regency Riau Archipelago Pronvince. Locatian determination is done on purpose as place of research with the basis that there are in Karimun District mackerel fish prossing business into Amplang mackerel crakers. Respondent in this research is the awner business processing mackerel crakker and i employe who works in this business. While consumers and 1 employe who wroks in this busniess. White consumens and marchants who become an informant to obtain supporting data on processed product mackerel crackers. The number of worker in the fish processing business mackerel crackerel as much as 3 people in a onetime processing/ production of fish crackerel processing business is capable of processing up to scopacks, sizes who offerest are heary 1½ ons weight, ptice rp 15.000,- ½ kg weight rp 55.000,- and the weight 1 kg isrp 110.000,-. With an average monthly income is rp 5.284.200,-. Mackerel marketing area is Karimun and Tg,pinang, including, supermarkets, arport and harbor swalayan. The presence the other fish crackers processed mart intocompetition price by mackerel fish crackers product to be very nigh, because processed fish crackers other than mackere lable to well below the price of mackerel creckers. But while the other of procesed crackers offer a low price, mackerel crackers is able to survive because of the this mackerel fish crackers has differenttaste more than other fish crackers. Keyword ; Crackers, Mackerel, Price 1) Students faculty of fisheries and Marince sciense of Riau Univercity 2) Lectores faculty of fisheries and Marince sciense of Riau Univercity PENDAHULUAN Provinsi Kepulauan Riau merupakan salah satu provinsi dengan letak geografis yang setrategis pada lokasi perikanan, serta didukung dengan kondisi alam yang sangat potensial, Provinsi Kepulauan Riau sangat memungkinkan mengembangkan investasi terutama dalam bidang perikanan dan kelautan. Pasokan perikanan tangkap yang berada di Kabupaten Karimun untuk Ikan Tenggiri (Scomberemus commersoni) pada saat musim mencapai 90kg sampai 120kg/ sekali tangkap atau melaut, sedangkan pada saat tidak musim rata-rata 35kg/sekali tangkap atau melaut. Untuk daerah penangkapan Ikan Tenggiri ini yaitu “Tokonghiu” terletak di daerah pelambung Kecamatan Tebing tidak