What’s wrong with the coastal waters of Spelman Strait, Indonesia: Sustainable reef fisheries management is required

Abstract

Reef fish in Spelman strait, Indonesia, is one of the fishery resources of considerable economic value. Unfortunately, there is still the use of unfriendly resources equipment (destructive fishing) that causes potential social problems. In this study, all components of the EAFM (Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management) are composed of 6 domains, namely (1) fish stocks, (2) environment and ecosystem, (3) fishing techniques, (4) culture, (5) social, and (6) institutional are analyzed combining with MDS (Multidimensional Scaling). This research aims to find out the root solution for managing coral reefs in the coastal waters of Spelman Strait. The results showed that the sustainability status review in the fishery resource domain, the environment and ecosystem domain, the fishery technique domain, the social domain, and the economic domain were 87.69, 88.17, 51.22, 51.61, and 72.67, respectively, which were in the sustainable category. Meanwhile, the sustainability status review in the institutional domain was 42.15, which was in the category of less sustainable. Institutions are the primary base for reef fishery protection in the Spelman Strait.