An island community in Indonesia’s Mentawai archipelago has responded to dwindling octopus stocks with a seasonal fishing closure to enable recovery.
“In the past, right here we could get 80 kilos [176 pounds] in one day,” Sutrisno told Mongabay Indonesia. But the days of record catches are gone. Anecdotal testimony and data recorded by YCMM indicate daily yields are more volatile, and that the octopus has become increasingly hard to pin down in the waters here.Sinaka has a population of just 2,411 people, yet this one village comprises some 32 islands and more than 400 kilometers of coastline — more than twice the length of seafront in Singapore, a city with a population of more than 5 million. Image by Jaka Hendra Baittri/Mongabay Indonesia.
South Pagai Island lies within the jurisdiction of Sinaka, one of nearly 84,000 administrative villages in Indonesia that receive dedicated funding from the central government to administer to local needs. “For this moratorium, monitoring is crucial and there must be someone to supervise it,” said Tarsan Samaloisa, the elected head of Sinaka village.
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