The alternative livelihood development strategy in order to improve local fishermen revenue in the border region of Indonesia and Timor Leste

The impact of climate change is causing obstacles for fishermen because of the increasing risk of fishing, changing seasons and fishing locations, uncertainty of the wind season, thus affecting the number of catches. Climate change conditions that disrupt marine ecosystems certainly can worsen the e...

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Published inAquaculture, Aquarium, Conservation & Legislation Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 269 - 279
Main Authors Paulus, Chaterina A, Pellokila, Marthen R, Sobang, Yohanis U L, Azmanajaya, Emil
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cluj-Napoca Bioflux SRL 01.02.2019
Subjects
Adaptation
Agriculture
Capture fisheries
Climate change
Coasts
Commercial fishing
Dependence
Disasters
Economic activities
Economic life
Economics
Ecosystems
Environmental changes
Environmental economics
Environmental impact
Family income
Fish
Fisheries
Fishers
Fishery resources
Fishing
Households
Human resources
Income
Livelihoods
Marine ecosystems
Revenue
Rural areas
Seasons
Surveying
Sustainability
Asia
Indonesia
India
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Summary:The impact of climate change is causing obstacles for fishermen because of the increasing risk of fishing, changing seasons and fishing locations, uncertainty of the wind season, thus affecting the number of catches. Climate change conditions that disrupt marine ecosystems certainly can worsen the economic life of fishermen households. The decrease in fish catch will have implications on household income. Fishermen in Belu have dependence on fishery sector especially capture fishery. Local fishermen need a strategy to increase revenue through alternative livelihoods to adapt to erratic fishing season. One of the economic adaptation strategies that fishermen can do is adaptation of human resources in fishery households through economic activities outside the fishery. This research aims to determine the income of fishermen households, analyzed the contribution of alternative efforts to total household income and analyze the involvement of family members of fishermen and the time spent to perform alternative livelihoods in the border areas of Indonesia and Timor Leste. The research was conducted using survey method through interview and observation technique. The results suggest that alternative livelihoods should be developed as a form of adaptation fishing households in retained revenue caused by decreased income from the main livelihoods as fishermen due to climate change.
ISSN:1844-8143
1844-9166