This research has been done village in Tanjung Baru Sub district in TanahMerah of Indragiri Hilir regency by many considerations that there are still many fishermen in poverty. This research aim is to know the cause factors of the fishermans poverty in Desa Tanjung and how about the percentage of the fishermens income from their job as a fisherman to their familys responsible and their necessity.The sample was taken village in Tanjung Baru Sub district in Tanah Merah of Indragiri Hilir regency by using random sampling method. The analysis method was descriptive quantitative.The population in this research is the poor fisherman village in Tanjung Baru Sub district in Tanah Merah of Indragiri Hilir regency with the total is 96 fishermen and the population in this research is the sample by the Slovins formulation. The data analysis is descriptive analysis by analyzing result data in order to be the backgrounds problem, also calculated by quantitative after that compare by the theory and make the conclusion.Based on the result analyzing that ahs been done, the fishermans poverty showed that income, education, assets, skill, commercial life style and the familys member who 3 up to 6 members as generally very significantly influencing to the fishermans poverty.Keywords: fishermans poverty, fishermans income