Development of Web GIS for Fisheries Surveillance in Fisheries Management Zone of Indonesia

Abstract

Fish is one of Indonesia sea resources that are potential to be utilized for Indonesia’s prosperity. Fish is highly demanded, and its abundant resources at sea trigger illegal fishing activities. The Government has regulations for fishing management as the decision maker that needs a reliable and good database management system to support it. Geographic Information System (GIS) is capable in assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying map and database information. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in a very informative way. In fisheries management that required good and effective data management, GIS is appropriate to be applied. As its function of providing data and information, GIS application for certain purposes, are then developed in web GIS. It means GIS is able to be accessed via internet. Users that have particular interests about the data and information can access directly through web GIS to get what they need. Keywords : GIS, web GIS, information system, database, Indonesia fisheries, illegal fishing, surveillance, IFMZ