USAID SEA

Gender perspectives in marine conservation and fisheries management are increasingly important to maintaining sustainability and advancing the interests of women, youth, and other marginalized groups in international development projects. In recognition of this, the United States Agency for International Development Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced Project (USAID SEA) undertook a gender assessment in 2018 to guide gender...

The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries has estimated the potential yield and has determined the status of reef fish stock in FMA 715 based on the result of the stock assessment with an assumption that the reef fish in FMA 715 belonged to a single stock.2 The status of the reef fish stock was...

In partnership with PURISKAN, USAID SEA project trained enumerators in fishery data collection in July 2017 that have been deployed to various project sites across 715 FMA to monitor fish landing following the methodology developed by BRPL (Research Institute of Marine Fisheries). Since November 2017, the USAID SEA partners ‘enumerators have started fish landing data...

According to the Indonesian Fishery Law No. 31, 2004 Jo No. 45, 2009 that all fishery vessels; including those for harvesting and transporting; operate in Indonesian waters are required to have licenses and permits (SIUP/SIPI/SIKPI). The Indonesian government is obligated to report the number of fishery vessels that are needed in developing the direction of...