WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 15, 2019
The Relevance of Socioeconomic Dimensions in Management and Governance of Sea Ranching
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Abstract: The southern coast of West Java has great potential tourism development due to the abundant resources of coral fish, coral reefs, sea grass, seaweed, sea turtle, mangroves and white sand beaches. On the other hand, there are challenges coming from fishing activities, which exploit the resources and thus leading to social conflict. This situation encourages communities to develop sea ranching, which is expected to open opportunity to harvest resources as well as to conserve it, such that the tourism potentials can be maintained. The research aims to analyze and evaluate a local social economy based model for ranching sea management. This research used primary and secondary data, which were processed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results of the analysis showed that for the development of sea ranching in the area, the preferred strategy is the management by local communities which put forward a number of important aspects in the region namely bioecoregion, fish species, technology, and socioeconomic values. Further, the results of the study concluded that sea ranching activities need to synergize the development of marine tourism and marine aquaculture, where in the main goal is the availability of alternative business for local people and reduction of pressures on resources.
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Pages: 78-88
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 15, 2019, Art. #9