Small is beautiful: Marine small-scale fisheries catches from the South-West Maluku Regency

2nd International Conference on Applied Marine Science and Fisheries Technology 2017

地球科学;农业科学

Hutubessy, B.G.^1 ; Mosse, J.W.^1 ; Hayward, P.^2

Fisheries and Marine Science Faculty, Pattimura University, Indonesia^1

Southern Cross University Australia, Australia^2

关键词: Construction approaches;    Fisheries management;    Global data;    Pelagic fish;    Qualitative data;    Small scale;    Small-scale fisheries;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/89/1/012003/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/89/1/012003

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The fisheries data supplied by fisheries agency have served as the primary tool for regional fisheries statistics. However, it is recognized these data are incomplete and often underestimate actual catches, particularly for small-scale fisheries. There is no widely accepted definition of small-scale fisheries or global data on number of small-scale fishers and their catches. This study reconstructed total marine catches from 1980 to 2015 for South-west Maluku (MBD) regency, by applying an established catch construction approach utilizing all available quantitative and qualitative data, combined with assumption-based estimations and interpolations. As newly established regency since 2009, there is lack of fisheries data available which is needed for fisheries management. Fishers' knowledge is important information taken from to construct long-term fisheries data. Estimated total fish withdrawal from MBD waters was 86,849.66 tonnes during 1980 - 2015, dominated by pelagic fishes. Consistency of estimated total removal and total landings at MBD regency play important role in small-scale fisheries management and this method of visualizing the history of fishery from poor-data condition might be an optimistic effort.