Purse seine is considered to be the most productive fising gear to catch pelagic fish, so there are many purse seiners that based in Bitung Oceanic Fishing Port operate in Fisheries Management Area of the Republic of Indonesia (WPP) 715 Moluccas Sea. There was and issue that the catches of purse seiner around FADs was classified as immature fish. Therefore, necessary to study the diversity and distribution of purse seiner catches in the area. The data collection was done by direct observation and active participation in the field and deep interviews with the crews of Grasia 04 purse seiner. At each hauling, twenty fish from each species were taken randomly measured their fork lengths. Catches during the study consisted of six species; namely skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellow fin tuna (Thunnus albacores), little tuna (Auxis thazard), scad mackerel (Decapteru smacarellus), rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata), oceanic trigger fish (Canthidermis maculata) and trevally (Selaroides leptolepis). The dominatcatch in each hauling were skipjack, yellowfin, tuna and scad mackerel. Results were showed that most of the catches of Grasia 04 purse seinerin the waters of Moluccas Sea not legal size.
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