Towards Sustainable Coastal Fisheries Development: A Case In Trammel Net Fishery In The Northern Coast Of Java

Abstract

The concept of sustainable fisheries development has been socialized since the last decades by the Indonesian government. However, this concept has not been implemented in any fisheries especially for the coastal fisheries, which have received a high pressure from intense fishing activities, industrial pollutions, household sewage, etc. Trammel net is one of the coastal fishing gears widely used by traditional fishermen all over Indonesia for catching shrimp as a target species and other non-target species. This gear has rapidly developed in the northern coast of Java, Malacca strait, and Makassar strait after the shrimp trawl banning in 1980. Due to no special regulation in this fishery with low control and attention from the government, the trammel net continued increase in fishing unit number year by year, even though the fish resource in the northern coast of Java was estimated to be over fishing. This paper discuss the development of the trammel net fishery and review the previous studies related to sustainable development of this fishery in the northern coast of Java in order to propose a better management.