Bionomic Assessment of the Marine Fisheries in the Northern Coast of Central Java
The Central Java fishing industry has been operated for decades under the policy of open access management. Present fishery policy in the area emphasizes resource development in order to improve the fishing industry. However, development programmes place some pressure on the resource use that co...
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1986
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8003/1/FEP_1986_2_.pdf |
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| Summary: | The Central Java fishing industry has been operated for
decades under the policy of open access management. Present
fishery policy in the area emphasizes resource development in
order to improve the fishing industry. However, development
programmes place some pressure on the resource use that could
lead to depletion.
This study was undertaken to evaluate the status of the
fisheries resource utilization of the northern coast of Central
Java. Temporal or static fishing models were used to assess
maximum and economic sustainable yields. Multiple input models of Schaefer and Fox were used but failed to produce the expected
results. However the single model of Schaefer was able to do so.
Results of the static single input model analysis showed that
the fisheries resource were, in fact, highly exploited. The
actual effort nearly approaches the estimated effort for Maximum
Sustainable Yield. However, the existing effort was far higher
than the estimated effort for the Open Access Equilibrium. The
fact that the fishermen still continue fishing while economic
rent had already dissipated, indicates that they were forced to
do fishing. This could be due to the absence of alternative
incomes sources for them.
Evaluation of the Central Java marine fisheries development
programmes using Smith's Table of effect on the development
on traditional fisheries showed that rural development method for
alternative incomes sources (the appropriate development method
to increase fishermen's income) received little attention.
Therefore, this method is strongly recommended. The specific
programmes recomended are development of the backward and
forward-linkages of the fishing industry, the establishment of
other rural industries which creates employment and generates
income to local fishermen and out-migration of local fishermen to
less-populated islands in Indonesia. |
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