ABSTRACT

THE EFFECTS OF TRAWL AND PURSE-SEINES

FISHING ON MARINE RESOURCES AND
ARTISANAL FISHERMEN IN THE EAST
COAST OF SABAH

This study examines the development of fishery’s technology in

east coast of Sabah with focus to the effect of trawl and purse-
seines fishing on marine sources and artisanal fishermen. Thus,
it uses history approaches as a core researches besides the
effect on tradition fishermen on marines sector itself. This
approaches involved such method as archives researches, orals
source, and thru interview with the respondents with second
sources to make this study more consolidate. The top of the
modern technology development in marine industries in east
Sabah can see after the independence of Sabah. After the trawl
machinery introduced as one of the most efficient commercial
marine sector in 1960th, this industry rapidly developed with
inclusion of technology. The purse-seines also used as a fishery
commercial. It is proved with the revenue of the marine fishing
landing in east coast on 80th century which is monopolized by
both fishery machines. After this technology fully applied in this
marine sector, it’s started to come out with a lot of problem to
the marine ecosystem structure and tradition fishermen.
Sufficiently large destruction effect on this marine origin no
matter spesis fish or sea bed ecosystem increasingly is felt
nowadays. All this comes from the intrusion activity by the
trawler in seaboard area and coral reefs. The same also with
the purse-seines activity caused the destroyed of the fish
sources with large number. The community of tradition
fishermen was the most damage group resulting the decrease
in the income because of the declining in they productivity. The
reality is the fishermen life’s continuously to be isolated without
defending by the local government party. The future of the
marines sources also put in danger if the intrusion of trawling
activity working interminable. This is become more bad when
the uncontrolled operation of purse-seines caused the
destroyed and end the existence of fish sources which is the
bollard to the local fishermen economic.

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