A. Species

Scientific name: Hippocampus spp.

Common name(s): Seahorses

Global IUCN Red List Threat Status:

B. Location of use

Geographic location(s):

• Jawa

Country/Region: Indonesia / Riau Islands

C. Scale of assessment

Scale of assessment: Individual Site

Name/Details of location: Sebong Pereh village / Bintan Island

D. Timescale of use

Start Year: 2017

End Year: 2017

E. Information about the use

How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Type of use: Extractive

Practice of use: Targeted fishing harvesting/exploiting or collecting wild aquatic resources

Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal

Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism

Purpose(s) of end use: Medicine and hygiene and Decorative and aesthetic

Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community) and Traditional/Cultural/Spiritual

Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law

F. Information about the Users

Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people

G. Information about the sustainability of use

Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: No, sustainability not determined

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species

Fishing for seahorses (diving) requires skills and experience, as part of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). It may be able to leverage these TEK-informed seahorse fishers to fish more sustainably. SebongPerehvillage seahorse fishermen already have the initiative to form a group of seahorse fishermen - encouraged by Government Agent of Coastal and Marine Resource Management (BalaiPengelolaanSumberdayaPesisirdanLaut Padang/BPSPL Padang). They have also created a marine protected area through Village Regulation .The conservation area is about 15 ha. If a fisherman catches 1 (one) seahorse in a conservation area, then the fisherman is required to return 3 (three) seahorses to the area. Unfortunately, here has been no enforcement and no supervisors have yet been placed in the conservancy area, even though there are already supervisory huts in place. The study concludes that more consultation at interdisciplinary frontiers is needed in order to formulate practical solutions to the core problems of Bintan seahorse fishing community in the future.

Record source

Information about the record source: scientific_pub

Date of publication/issue/production: 2018-01-01T00:00:00+0000

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Date of record entry: 2022-11-22