Towards sustainable coastal fisheries development: A case in trammel net fishery in the northern coast of central Java

Research PaperThe concept of sustainable fisheries development has been socialized since the last decades by the Indonesian government. However, this concept has not been implemented in any fisheries aspects especially for the coastal fisheries, which have received a high pressure from fishing activities, industrial pollutions, household sewage, etc. Trammel net is one of the coastal fishing gears widely used by traditional fishermen all over Indonesia for catching shrimp as a target species and other demersal fish. This gear has rapidly developed in the northern coast of Java, Malacca strait, and Makassar strait after the shrimp trawl banning in 1980. Due to no special regulation in this fishery with low control and low awareness of the fishers, the trammel continue increase in fishing unit number year by year, even though the fish resource in the northern coast of central Java was estimated to be over fishing. This paper discusses the present status of this fishery and proposes and idea on the management strategy of coastal trammel nets fisheries in the northern coast of Java for sustainable development goal