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APRI-SFP-FPIK IPB Held Event Sciences-Business Forum for Indonesian Blue Swimming Crab

by adminapri April 25, 2017 0 comments

APRI-SFP-FPIK IPB Held Event Sciences-Business Forum for Indonesian Blue Swimming Crab. This event was held on April 17-18, 2017 at IPB Convention Center, Bogor and invites all BSC Stakeholder such as Fishermans, Miniplants, Industry, BSC Enumerator, Government Institution, Universities, Researcher and also NGO. This Sciences-Business Forum was held to support APRI FIP (Fishery Improvement Projects) and SFP Program, and also to support Government Regulation for Blue Swimming Crab.  APRI and SFP also work together to collect information and analyze the biological, socio and economic impacts of the regulations and implementation of Control Document, and identify measures to minimize the socio economic impacts especially tothe small-scale fishers and enhance compliance.

More than that, the sustainable fishery management will also need extensive research and knowledge support as inputs for the right management measures for this fishery. In this context, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Bogor Agricultural University (FPIK-IPB) as one of the universities in Indonesia, is putting blue swimming crab as one of its Centre of Excellence Program. FPIK-IPB has set the blue swimming crab as one of the research themes under Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) covering habitat, fishery resources, fishing technology, socioeconomic and policy/institution.

In order to improve knowledge sharing and exchange, and with the spirit of filling the gaps, a media to facilitate the open discussion between business, science and policy makers are needed. FPIK-IPB has the spirit to become facilitator for the meeting between science and business in the form of Sciences-Business Forum (SBF), which is conducted for every unit of fishery business, in this case blue swimming crab. Therefore, APRI, SFP and FPIK-IPB work together to facilitate SBF for Blue Swimming Crab Fishery aimed to collect and analyze information on the biological, socio and economic impacts of the implementation of government regulation on blue swimming crab fishery. In addition to that, the SBF forum will also identify the actions needed to minimize the potential socio-economic impacts to the small-scale fishers and help them improve the compliance to the regulations.

As for purposes of this workshop are:
1. Present and discuss the current available biological, socio and economic data and information gathered so far, and identify the gaps.
2. Present and discuss the impacts of different management measures on blue swimming crab fishery (including minimum Landing Size-MLS of 10 cm, ban on catching berried female and ban on the use of trawl) using a relatively simply excel-based bio-economic modeling with key stakeholders.
3. Get inputs from key stakeholders involved in Indonesian blue swimming fishery on what need to be done to improve this fishery towards sustainable fishery and ensure compliance to regulations while in the same time minimize the potential impacts to local community.
4. Develop action plans for improving the fishery towards sustainability fishery and ensure compliance to regulations while in the same time minimize the potential impacts to local community.