Enhanching small-scale community for coastal management in Puntondo Bay, Indonesia

Abstract

Coastal communities were mostly characterized by small-scale fisheries, facing difficulties to improve livelihoods and coastal management. Thus, community needs to build the organization and alternative livelihoods must be developed. This study aims to: 1) Asses the socio-economic information; 2) Analyze the dynamic of marine and fisheries activities, and 3) Analyze the activity to improve the capacity of community for coastal resource management. Data were collected during 2017 through interviews using structured and semi-structured questionnaires, both open and closed ones to 42 fishermen/seaweed farmers; 20 respondents from local fishery officers, seaweed collectors, traders, and exporters, processing companies, and coastal women/fishermen’s wives. Representatives of 11 relevant stakeholders were also interviewed. The result shows that coastal community livelihood activities in Takalar District consist of fishing, aquaculture, and the processing of fishery products. Fishing activities carried out by fishermen using the size <5 GT vessels and fishing gear such as nets and fishing rods. There is growing aquaculture in seaweed commodities particularly Eucheuma cottonii and Eucheuma spinosum, while for Gracilaria sp., and Caulerva sp. were started to be developed. Initial activity planning was done to increase the resilience of coastal communities, based on the social and economic profile then composed the activities plan to increase resilience of people in Takalar District.