Status of small-scale tuna fisheries at Haruo Village, Central Maluku Regency

Abstract

The Haruo Village is one of the villages situated in Central Maluku Regency. This village is one of the most populous villages that have the livelihood of being tuna fishermen. All the fishermen from this village are considered mostly small-scale fishermen. The study was conducted between July to September 2020 to assess the sustainability of small-scale tuna fishery and proposed sustainable management strategy. Rapfish analysis was used to analyze small-scale tuna sustainability status and DPSIR to proposed a sustainable management strategy. The result showed that fair trade gave benefit in terms of ecology, socio-economy, and institutional towards the small-scale tuna fisheries compared to non-fair trade in terms of the socio-economy aspect. The sustainable status of small-scale tuna fishery, in general, was considered sustain (74.52%) for fair trade approach and less sustain (51.72%) for non-fair trade. The institutional dimension from non-fair trade tuna fishery was the lowest one (24.68%) and was considered unsustain. Based on the DPSIR approach, eight strategies management plans were proposed for sustainable management of small-scale tuna fishery in Haruo Village. The strategy can be applied at Driver (D), Pressure (P), State (S), and Impact (I) level.