2021 STATE OF THE BLUE SWIMMING CRAB FISHERY IN FISHERY MANAGEMENT AREA (WPP) 712
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Annexes
Annex 1:
Consortium Members’ Highlights ◀ Financial literacy program. © EDF
Fisheries management The BSC Consortium is driven by one common goal — to accelerate the efforts to achieve sustainability for Indonesia’s blue swimming crab fisheries. In 2020, FAO, under the ISLME project, supported the MMAF and carried out an ecosystems approach to fisheries management (EAFM) in Morodemak, Central Java as a basis for the development of Harvest Strategy, issued in 2020 and its Harvest Control Rules, regulating the input control (boat registration, use of non-harmful fishing gears and reporting) and output control (setting minimum legal size for BSC: >10-cm carapace width and banning the capture of female BSC with eggs). The target is to increase the BSC spawning potential ratio to at least 30% and to increase the percentage of wild caught BSC above the minimum legal size to 90%. The EAFM assessment findings put BSC fisheries in WPP 712 in the “restoration strategy” category, meaning it requires a systematic and comprehensive intervention to change the status from bad to moderate. The findings also indicate the need for improvements in the habitat, fish resources, social and institutional domains; while the fishing technique and economic domains show relatively good progress. In 2021, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Mitra Bentala held 18 public consultations with 335 community members to determine no-take zones where fishing will be prohibited to allow juvenile BSC to spawn and mature. The local government and communities have recently agreed that migratory fishers will not be allowed to fish in Lampung’s nearshore waters (0-5 km) to reduce conflicts around gear type (i.e., gillnets vs. traps vs. trawls) and lost or damaged gear; in return, fishers will help oversee
MPA consultation. © EDF
management and enforcement of 8,000 hectares of no-take zones (referred to locally as core zones). If the MMAF approves the province’s MPA request, this provision will become law. Meanwhile in the West Java province, the blue swimming crab management planning team, a multistakeholder team established by the Governor decree in 2022, finally completed the draft of the blue swimming crab management action plan for the province. The finalization session was conducted on the 7th and 8th December 2021 in Bandung after an extensive online planning process. The meeting was also attended by MMAF representatives.
