The fishery of sea-cucumber Holothuridae in Kilbat Village, Central Maluku Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

Sea cumber is one of the valuable high economic resources. Worldwide, most sea cucumber fisheries are ineffectively managed, leading to declining stocks and potentially eroding the resilience of fisheries. The local fishermen of Kilbat Village have been exploiting sea cucumber for a long time with un-proper management pan. This study was aimed to investigate the utilization of sea cumber and assess its sustainability, and propose a sustainable management strategy. Field observation was used to analyze sea cucumber utilization, the Rapid appraisal to Fisheries (Rapfish) approach was used to assess its sustainability, whilst DPSIR was applied to perform a sustainable management strategy. The result shows that the local sea cucumber fishermen utilize sea cucumber as a source of income and self-consumption. The average sustainability was 61.17% of 100% sustainable scale and considered as fair sustain with institutional dimension being unsustain. There are 8 strategies proposed for sea cumber sustainable management with responses at D, P, S, and I level, A traditional indigenous knowledge (sasi) has been proposed for sea cucumber community-based fishery management.