Legal Development in the Overcoming Overfishing in Indonesian Coastal Areas

Abstract

Indonesia is an island state having so broad sea area. It makes Indonesia have advantages in maritime sector. One of sea areas with abundant resource potency in Indonesia is the coastal area. This coastal area is important to Indonesian people because many people rely on the area for their life. Abundant resource in coastal area does not guarantee the good welfare level to the people. It is because of some problems occurring in the coastal area management. One of important problems having an impact on coastal area is overfishing phenomenon. Overfishing is an activity of fishing excessively beyond the fish resource’s recovering ability. The activity, of course, results in coastal ecosystem damage and then leads to the low productivity. Overfishing phenomenon in coastal area results from the legal problem ending up in law uncertainty, authority conflict, and bio-geophysical damage of resource existing in coastal area. This research aims to prevent overfishing from spreading widely to other coastal areas and to overcome the overfishing activity that has occurred in coastal areas. It can be accomplished through legal development in the management of coastal area. This research used normative legal research method using primary, secondary and non-legal materials as data source, the collection of which was conducted using document study. Data analysis was conducted qualitatively with data validity using credibility, transferability, dependability, and conformity elements.