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The Impact of Fishermen’s Conflict on the Sustainability of Crab (Portunuspelagicus) resources in the coastal areas of Maros District,South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Theimpactoffishermen’sconflictonthesustainabilityofcrab(Portunuspelagicus)resourcesinthecoastalareasofMarosDistrict,South Sulawesi,Indonesia.Biodiversitas23:5278-5289.Using environmentally unfriendly fishing gear causes damage to coral reefs and seagrass, which are the habitat of crabs. The prohibition on using ecologically unfriendly fishing gear, such as mini trawl, in catching crabs and shrimps in the coastal area ofMaros District, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, has triggered horizontal conflicts between traditional fishermen from 1985 until now. This study aims to identify the types of fishing conflicts and analyze the distribution of conflict areas and the maximum fishing rate that could threaten the sustainability of crab (Portunus pelagicus)resources. This research was conducted from February to July 2022 in the coastal area of Maros, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The type of data is primary and secondary data. The data collection methods used in this study were observation, interviews, and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). The analysis data used qualitative by reducing and presenting data obtained from observations, interviews, and PRA, as well as spatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to describe the distribution map of fishermen's conflicts. The results showed that the types of conflicts between fishermen using crab resources were agrarian conflicts, technological conflicts, and perception conflicts between fishermen using trammel nets and traps and fishermen using mini trawls. Conflicts between fishermen in resource utilization crabs occur between 2.71-3.26 km from the coast during dark moons and 2.17-3.26 km during bright moons. Fishing conflicts have an impact on decreasing crab catches from 2015 until 2021, where the fishing effort (trip) has exceeded the sustainable fishing effort (MSY) by 690 trips/year with a total catch of 1232.3 tons/year.Keywords:Crabs, fishermen’sconflict,minitrawl,trammelnet,trapsINTRODUCTIONThe development of world population growth causes the management of fisheries resources to become increasingly complex. In developing countries such as Indonesia, the management of fishery resources has not been fully supported by social, political, economic, and demographic factors, so this is a big challenge for those involved (FAO 2020). The fisheries sector has not been managed optimally, both in terms of its potential as a superior sector and in improvingthe welfare of coastal communities, even though the reality of the physical and geographical potential of fishery resources is much better than the other developing countries. Jimenez et al.(2019),confirm that weak government governance and government performance in law enforcement, monitoring and supervision can lead to a natural resource crisis in a region. Further added by Boucquey (2017), government policies must be able to accommodate moral politics in the economy in groups of users of fishery resources. Siakwah (2018) provides an overview of the conditions in Ghana where bad policies have been taken by the government, which can create tension between local actors and the communities in the region. Boustany et al. (2021) provided the results of a study in the California region on legal protections that have been enacted during the 20th century to restore a long-extinct Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) population; according to Fitzgerald et al. (2019) that government policies are significant for the sustainability and availability of stocks of biological resources, including developing an environmentally friendly fishing gear system for the recovery of fishery resources (Wang et al. 2022). It is emphasized by Murray et al. (2015) that a sound policy must pay attention to the economic, ecological and social aspects of the community to balance. Eriksson et al. (2019) add that policies related to conservation efforts by considering community socio-economic factors, such as new livelihoods in their planning,provide a greater chance of success.Regarding the strategic role and potential prospects of coastal and marine ecosystems and natural resources, various obstacles and trends threaten sustainable carrying

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UCM-P-J-0002-1

UCM-P-J-0002

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Vol. 23 No. 10 (2022)

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UCM-P-J-0002

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: Society for Indonesian Biodiversity., 2022

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DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d231037

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English

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2085-4722

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Vol. 23 No. 10 (2022)

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Kelautan dan Perikanan

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Crabs, fishermen’s conflict, mini trawl, trammel net ,traps

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Diterbitkan di Society for Indonesian Biodiversity, Department of Biology, FMNS, Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta

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