Fair Trade Fisher Associations in Maluku and North Maluku recently celebrated World Fisheries Day (WFD) 2021, along with the rest of fishery communities around the globe. This year, they called out to fellow small-scale fishers to consider taking a one-day break from fishing each week, or a total of 52 days a year. This effort…
Formed in 2013, the Harapan Jaya fisher’s business association (known in Indonesian as Kelompok Usaha Bersama/KUB) was managed by 15 fishermen in Seruni Mumbul village, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. The establishment of a KUB serves as initial foundation in developing a business model for fishers, further providing economic empowerment, as well as access to…
By: Novita Ayu Wulandari, Subhan Murid, Amrollah, Putra Satria Timur MDPI has been working in North Sulawesi since 2015, carrying out data collection on handline tuna fishery and “huhate” fishing vessels. Now, along with having entered MDPI’s 8th year as an established organization, a new strategy has been developed to put more focus on Fisheries…
Tuna handline fishers nowadays are increasingly dependent on heavy stones to use as weights. In fact, they are finding it difficult to collect stones, thus needing to spend more money on either buying or venturing out further to get more stones. In a day, one fisherman can release up to 40 stones weighing 1 kg…
After almost 3 years of implementing Fisheries Improvement Program through port sampling data collection in Manado, in 2020 MDPI began to identify other areas in North Sulawesi to expand fisheries management efforts. This is in line with MDPI’s new strategy, reconstructed to put more focus on community-based development through the Fisheries Community Organization (FCO) program….
