{"id":94709,"date":"2022-05-12T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T09:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&#038;p=94709"},"modified":"2022-05-12T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T09:24:35","slug":"indonesia-taps-coastal-communities-in-war-on-illegal-fishing","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/indonesia-taps-coastal-communities-in-war-on-illegal-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia taps coastal communities in war on illegal fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esterlita Jabu says she still remembers the gut-wrenching horror of hearing explosions from blast fishers near the beach where she played as a child with her friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only you could hear it, but also you could feel the vibrations,\u201d she tells Mongabay during a visit to her village on the island of Mutus in Indonesia\u2019s Raja Ampat archipelago. Today, 33-year-old Esterlita is a member of the island\u2019s community volunteer group that patrols the waters for illegal and destructive fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Methods such as blast fishing and cyanide fishing flourished in the waters of Raja Ampat since the 1980s in response to rising commercial seafood demand.<\/p>\n<p>By 2006, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing accounted for\u00a020 per cent of the total reef fish catch. These practices have also been blamed by local fishers for\u00a0causing declines in fish catch and posing the greatest threat to fisheries resources.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s marine area covers 5.8 million square kilometres (2.2 million square miles) and is home to the highest coral reef fish diversity in the world. High levels of monitoring, surveillance and enforcement are needed to effectively prevent destructive fishing and protect marine resources, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":2,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[391,2142],"region":[28],"source":[649],"country":[1922],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94711,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94709\/revisions\/94711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94709"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=94709"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=94709"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=94709"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=94709"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=94709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}