Setting Up Traceability Tools for the Indonesian Blue Swimming Crab Fishery: A Case Study in Southeast Sulawesi

Abstract

The Indonesian blue swimming crab fishery developed rapidly during the 1990s to become an important source of income for coastal communities. The blue swimming crab (BSC) in 2015 is the third highest export commodity in Indonesia, primarily to USA markets. Southeast (SE) Sulawesi is a relatively minor area for blue swimming crab production (approximately 1200-2000 mt per annum), in which only a subset of Asosiasi Pengelolaan Rajungan Indonesia (APRI) members are active, and it may be a conducive region in which to conduct a pilot activity to form a fisheries management structure that demonstrates the benefits that can be achieved via collaboration. The control document (CD) is a traceability and documentation process to be implemented by all of the segments of the supply chain (collectors/cooking stations, miniplants, and processors) in order to promote compliance to new Ministry and Marine Affair (MMAF) regulations and generate the records and documents of the supply chain application and verification of the new regulations. The self-recorded logbook by the fishermen and miniplant, as the point in the supply chain, could help with a meaningful and long-term solution to the fishery management in Southeast Sulawesi. This is the first trial of CD in Indonesia and could be a good model for BSC fishery in other region in Indonesia.

Keanekaragaman Jenis Ikan Hasil Tangkapan Sampingan (Bycatch) Perikanan Rajungan Di Teluk Lasongko Dan Kendari Sulawesi Tenggara

“…Teluk Lasongko dan Kendari merupakan daerah penangkapan rajungan di Sulawesi Tenggara, dan sejak awal tahun 2000-an sampai sekarang penangkapan rajungan di kedua perairan tersebut berkembang pesat dan dilakukan oleh nelayan kecil. Penangkapan rajungan di Sulawesi Tenggara menggunakan bubu sebagai alat tangkap dominan dan juga gillnet rajungan, dan daerah penangkapannya tersebar pada daerah pantai terbuka dan teluk mulai dari bagian intertidal sampai 35 meter (Madduppa et al 2016;Hamid et al 2017). Tingkat pemanfaatan rajungan di perairan Sulawesi Tenggara sudah tergolong tangkap lebih atau overfishing (Suman et al 2016), sehingga perlu segera dilakukan pengelolaan dengan baik.…”

Reproductive ecology, spawning potential, and breeding season of blue swimming crab (Portunidae: Portunus pelagicus) in Java Sea, Indonesia

“…This would be an appropriate pre-cautionary approach for maintaining a spawning and breeding female population and therefore stock productivity. This could be monitored through integrated traceability tools (see Madduppa et al 2016). (iii) Concerning fishing gear selectiveness, the collapsible trap was the most selective gear, with an average size of BSC up to 112 mm at all landing sites, and the least selective was trawling.…”

“…Fishing activities in BSC fisheries carried out in a relatively short time on each trip by small-scale fishers, and they have one-day fishing as seen in Southeast Sulawesi (Madduppa et al 2016). The common fishing gears used to catch BSC in Indonesia are bottom trawl (locally: "arad"), bottom gill net (locally: "kejer") and collapsible traps (locally: "Bubu"), which have listed as national fishing gears (DJCF, 2012).…”

Moving within and beyond illegal crustacean fishery: why do Indonesian fishermen not comply with the crustacean catch ban rule?

“…Nonetheless, the emergence of the global seafood market drives fishermen to overexploit crustacean species (Pusceddu et al 2014). The overexploitation threatens crustacean populations and marine habitats in the oceans (Fromentin et al 2014;Madduppa et al 2016).…”