Sustainable Fishermen Poverty: Analysis of External and Internal Factors of Fishermen's Poverty in Gorontalo City

The purpose of this research is to identify the social realities of fishermen’s lives, analyze internal and external socio-cultural factors that integrally influence the occurrence of sustainable poverty, and construct a theory regarding the meaning of poverty with data collection techniques of in-depth interviews and documentation studies with a qualitative descriptive approach to uncover the issue of fishermen’s poverty. Keywords: Fishermen, External/Internal Factors, Povert