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Illegal but Common. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 92
It is estimated
that more than 53% of Indonesia's
coral reefs have been threatened by
destructive fishing such as blast fishing. Blast
fishing (dynamite fishing) is the practice of
using explosives to catch the fish. This illegal practice
is extremely destructive to the surrounding
ecosystem, especially to coral reefs. This book
is an anthropological research on blast
fishermen society in a small island within the
Spermonde archipelago, Indonesia. It discovers the
daily life of fishermen who deal with illegal and
destructive fishing. The desire to achieve
economic gain and modernization
overcame their desire for resource sustainability.
Exposure to the nearby city of modern life in
Makassar (the mainland) combined with a lack of
formal education plunges them into a greediness
situation in which they have only limited
alternatives available with which to participate in
the material consumption that surrounds them. The
high demand from global markets for fish attracts
them to use short-cuts in fishing.
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