WHY INDONESIA SHOULD DEVELOP TUNA SEA FARMING TO OVERCOME OVERFISHING? A REVIEW OF TWO SIDES ARGUMENT
ABSTRACT: Tuna is the mainstay
of fisheries export commodities in Indonesia with a total export amounted to
201.159 tons and export value of 750 million dollars in 2012. The high demand
tuna improve the practice of tuna captured in the sea, causing a decline in
tuna stocks both in the number and size of tuna caught. This condition triggers
the experts to culture tuna in laboratory scale to reduce the impact of
overexploitation (overfishing). However, the tuna sea farming is under the
spotlight because in practice, some countries do tuna farming without hatching
of the parent tuna but merely enlarge a baby tuna are caught from the wild to
market size. This gives rise to a difference of opinion of many experts on tuna
farming practices. Therefore, this article highlights the pros and cons of
experts on tuna farming from environmental, economic and technical, to
determine whether Indonesia needs to develop tuna farming to cope with
overfishing. The method used in this research is the study of literature
writings on tuna farming and analyzed descriptively. Results of the analysis
showed that despite the many negative opinions about the tuna sea farming, the
Indonesian government should support the of tuna sea farming with tuna breeding
research, as has been done by the Research Institute for Marine Fisheries
Gondol. If the tuna breeding is successful, will have a great impact on the
problems of the world tuna demand which increasing every year.
KEYWORDS: tuna; sea farming;
overfishing; review
Penulis: Maharani Yulisti,
Rizky Muhartono, Armen Zulham
Kode Jurnal: jpperikanandd140401