Putting an End to the Tragedy of Ranching in Napoleon Wrasse Fishery in Indonesia: A Sociological Approach

Abstract

This study aims to look into Napoleon wrasse ranching in Anambas Islands Regency. Historically, the society in Anambas Islands has been socially constructed an unsustainable view of exploiting marine resources. In Napoleon wrasse fishery, overfishing has played a significant role in the loss of its populations. Due of the lack of adult Napoleon wrasse stock in marine ecosystem, larvae despite its high mortality rate are also sought as ranching target. It is found a tremendous amount of larvae are wasted in ranching period due low survival capacity to adapt to a caged ecosystem, so that the effectiveness of larvae ranching is questianable. Larvae fishing has become the object of the tragedy of the commons, whereas this particular activity plays an important role in the fishery. As a result, conservation and management have never been more important. The reflection to establish sustainable view is seen from discussion between Agent-Structure theory by Bourdieu and Agent-Network Theory by Latour. Local capacity to perform Locally Managed Marine Areas (LMMA) created major initiatives in delivering sustainable coral reef ecosystems which also form a natural environment of Napoleon wrasse

Marine Protected Area management under the impacts of climate change and increased human activities in marine ecosystems: A review for Anambas Islands MPA

“…Ministerial of Marine and Fisheries Affairs Republic of Indonesia Decree No. 56/Kepmen-KP/2014 barring foreign vessels from accessing Indonesian seas has effectively ended Napoleon wrasse shipments to Hong Kong, and only allows 5000 fish for export annually [13].…”

Local ecological knowledge (LEK) suggests overfishing and sequential depletion of Peruvian coastal groundfish

“…2020; Khasanah et al. 2020; Arieta 2022). Other Humboldt Current endemic species, such as the Grape‐eye Seabass, Chino, and Pacific Beakfish, also showed medium to extremely high levels of reduction in their relative participation within the habitual catch in addition to decreases in the geographical distribution of their catch.…”

“…The groupers (Epinephelidae; Broomtail and Pacific Goliath groupers) and the Humboldt Current endemic wrasses (Labridae; Harlequin and Galapagos Sheephead wrasses) are reportedly threatened or experiencing overfishing worldwide (Sadovy and Eklund 1999;Coleman et al 2000;Sadovy et al 2003Sadovy et al , 2007Sadovy et al , 2011Sadovy et al , 2020Giglio et al 2014;Sherman et al 2016;Erisman and Craig 2018;Daly et al 2020;Khasanah et al 2020;Arieta 2022). Other Humboldt Current endemic species, such as the Grapeeye Seabass, Chino, and Pacific Beakfish, also showed medium to extremely high levels of reduction in their relative participation within the habitual catch in addition to decreases in the geographical distribution of their catch.…”