Status of mud crab (Scylla sp.) fishery and mangrove ecosystem of Sanleko Village, Buru District, Indonesia

Abstract

Until recently live crab business has been proven as a promising fisheries practice in many parts in Indonesia. Mud crab capture based fishery at Sanleko Village has been going for more than 20 years of time. The present study was aimed to examine the status of mangrove ecosystem as main mud crab habitat and mud crab fishery at Sanleko Village of Buru District. Mud crab fishery status was considered less sustain with an average sustainable scale of 47.36% whilst mangrove ecosystem sustainability status was considered sustain (60.29) according to the ecosystem approach to fisheries management. The economic analysis shows the NPV of 17.05 with average B/R of 2.47. The IRR of this fishery was 23.2% which is bigger than the interest rate of 15% and the payback period of 0.6. In general, the fishery of mud crab at Sanleko Village is still feasible with steadily decreasing economic sustainability.