Hidayat, Nur Ismu and Kurniawan, Fery and Zairion, Zairion (2025) Balancing economy and ecology: Ecosystem approach to enhanced traditional demersal fisheries management in West Papua, Indonesia. Marine Policy, 181.
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Implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) at the local scale could maintain a vital role of small-scale demersal fisheries and address their numerous challenges, including resource depletion, overfishing, biodiversity loss, and ineffective management. Periodic coral reef monitoring in Kaimana Regency, West Papua, Indonesia, indicates a decline in these high-market-value fisheries. However, no comprehensive study has been conducted on small-scale demersal fisheries and the implementation of EAFM in Kaimana. This research aims to evaluate the current conditions of small-scale demersal fisheries using the EAFM framework and formulate tactical decision options to improve the fisheries’ sustainability. Limited fisheries data from the biggest traditional landing site in Kaimana from June 2021 to December 2023 and interview data from September to December 2024 of traditional fishers with over five years of experience were analyzed. The findings indicated that small-scale demersal fisheries in Kaimana fulfilled a good implementation of EAFM principles, with an aggregate score of 74.09 %. While the economic domain scored highest (100 %), the fish resources domain scored lowest (58.67 %), indicating the need to improve small-scale demersal fisheries management. Considering these findings, various tactical decisions were explored, focusing on strengthening fish resources, habitat, and ecosystem, fishing techniques, social and institutional domains, while maintaining strengths in economic domains of EAFM.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | West Papua, Indonesia, Traditional Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM), Small-scall Fisheries, Demersal Fisheries, Fisheries Resources, Coral Reef, Monitoring, Overfishing, Biodiversity |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 10:35 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22509 |
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