What's wrong with the coastal waters of Spelman Strait, Indonesia: Sustainable reef fisheries management is required

Abstract

Reef fish in Spelman strait, Indonesia, is one of the fishery resources of considerable economic value. Unfortunately, there is still the use of unfriendly resources equipment (destructive fishing) that cause potential social problems. In this study, all components of the EAFM (Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management) composed of 6 domains, namely (1) fish stocks, (2) environment and ecosystem, (3) fishing techniques, (4) culture, (5) social, and (6) institutional are analyzed combining with MDS (Multidimensional Scaling). The main aim of this research is to find out the root solution for managing coral reefs in the coastal waters of Spelman Strait. The sustainability status review in the fishery resource domain, the environment and ecosystem domain, the fishery technique domain, the social domain, and the economic domain were respectively were 87.69, 88.17, 51.22, 51.61, and 72.67 which were in the category sustainable. Meanwhile, the sustainability status review in the institutional domain was 42.15, which was in the category of less sustainable. Institutions are the primary base for reef fishery protection in the Spelman Strait.

Sustainability status of small-scale fisheries resources in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia after reclamation

“…In the after reclamation sustainability analysis, the RAPFISH (rapid appraisal for Fisheries) model was developed by a team from the University of British Columbia and FAO (Pitcher 1999;Pitcher and Preikshot 2001;Anna 2003;Kavanagh and Pitcher 2004;Anna and Fauzi 2007;Fauzi 2019). Fisheries management in Indonesia using RAPFISH has been carried out by various methods, such as the sustainability status of smallscale tuna fisheries (Tetelepta et al 2021), sustainability study of household-scale fisheries (Hartati et al 2021), sustainability status for reef fisheries management (Kurnia et al 2021), sustainability status for hammerhead shark (Anna et al 2020), sustainability status of fisheries in the vicinity of tin mining area (Ramadona et al 2020). This method is not only used in Indonesia, but other countries as well, such as Iran (Allahyari 2010), India (Adiga et al 2015), Brazil (Jimenez et al 2021), and Chile (Milagros et al 2021).…”