Monitoring small-scale fisheries catches in Indonesia through a fishing logbook system: Challenges and strategies

Sari, I; Ichsan, M; White, A; Raup, SA; Wisudo, SH

Monitoring small-scale fisheries catches in Indonesia through a fishing logbook system: Challenges and strategies

Sari, I Ichsan, M White, A Raup, SA Wisudo, SH

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Marine Policy, 2021, 134, pp. 104770
Issue Date:: 2021-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Sari, I
dc.contributor.author	Ichsan, M
dc.contributor.author	White, A
dc.contributor.author	Raup, SA
dc.contributor.author	Wisudo, SH
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-09T00:02:16Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-09T00:02:16Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-01
dc.identifier.citation	Marine Policy, 2021, 134, pp. 104770
dc.identifier.issn	0308-597X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155083
dc.description.abstract	In Indonesia, small-scale fisheries involve about 90% of the total number of fishers and generate significant employment for coastal communities. As defined by Indonesian law, these fisheries are exempted from catch reporting which creates a large gap in catch data for estimating stock status and fishing pressure. Indonesian small-scale fishers are scattered across thousands of islands so that monitoring catches is difficult without a systematic approach to ensure long-term benefits. This paper describes the results of work by the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, in partnership with the USAID Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (SEA) Project, to initiate the development of a fishing logbook system for small-scale fisheries. This initiative addressed challenging issues pertaining to Indonesian institutional arrangements, capabilities of small-scale fisheries and reliability of fishing logbook data. A holistic intervention using the sustainable livelihood approach was used to unpack the complexities and develop strategies of enabling factors to establish a catch monitoring system for Indonesian small-scale fisheries. This initiative shows that a tradeoff between an ideal fishing logbook system versus an applicable model that may compromise logbook data qualities is inevitable. Also, co-management is seen as a suitable for the purposes of establishing a catch reporting system for Indonesian small-scale fisheries. The initial work described herein is seen as an essential steppingstone for improving management of small-scale fisheries in Indonesia.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartof	Marine Policy
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104770
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	0502 Environmental Science and Management, 1606 Political Science, 1801 Law
dc.subject.classification	Fisheries
dc.title	Monitoring small-scale fisheries catches in Indonesia through a fishing logbook system: Challenges and strategies
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

In Indonesia, small-scale fisheries involve about 90% of the total number of fishers and generate significant employment for coastal communities. As defined by Indonesian law, these fisheries are exempted from catch reporting which creates a large gap in catch data for estimating stock status and fishing pressure. Indonesian small-scale fishers are scattered across thousands of islands so that monitoring catches is difficult without a systematic approach to ensure long-term benefits. This paper describes the results of work by the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, in partnership with the USAID Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (SEA) Project, to initiate the development of a fishing logbook system for small-scale fisheries. This initiative addressed challenging issues pertaining to Indonesian institutional arrangements, capabilities of small-scale fisheries and reliability of fishing logbook data. A holistic intervention using the sustainable livelihood approach was used to unpack the complexities and develop strategies of enabling factors to establish a catch monitoring system for Indonesian small-scale fisheries. This initiative shows that a tradeoff between an ideal fishing logbook system versus an applicable model that may compromise logbook data qualities is inevitable. Also, co-management is seen as a suitable for the purposes of establishing a catch reporting system for Indonesian small-scale fisheries. The initial work described herein is seen as an essential steppingstone for improving management of small-scale fisheries in Indonesia.

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