SUMMARY
The purposes of this research are to identify fishes’
freshness level at Sunday Market of Bengkulu City based on Indonesia National
Standard 01-2729.1-2006
about Spesification of Fresh Fish, kinds of fishes’ physical damage, and the
factors influence that physical damage. Method of the research used is survey
method. The data analysis used qualitative inductive method is approach with
describing of data from generally form into specific form.
Results of the research showed that 1) level of fishes’
freshness at Sunday Marketof Bengkulu City based on Indonesia National Standard
01-2729.1-2006
about Spesification of Fresh Fish showed in morning all of fishes in fresh
criteria, in noon only Sarden fish descended in freshness level, in afternoon
average fifth of fishes is not fresh criteria; 2) kinds of the fishes’ physical
damage at Sunday Market of Bengkulu City for a) Sarden Fish are out of
stomach’s contents and detached of head, b) Tuna Fish and Tongkol Fish are
bruise, injure, there are strange things are abnormally in fishes’ body, and c)
Pomfret fish and Calcarifer fish are bruise and injure; and 3) the cause of factors
to fishes’ physical damage ata Sunday Morning of Bengkulu City for a) Sarden
fish are trampled down, piling up is too high in storage container before they
are saled and in saled time at the market, b) Tuna fish and Tongkol fish are the
fishes catching tools are incorrectly, throw down forcefully, and packaging is
incorrectly during process of transportation and distribution, c) Pomfret fish and Calcarifer fish are throw
down forcefully, piling up is too high in storage container before they are
saled and in saled time at the market, and packaging is incorrectly during
process of transportation and distribution.