Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone

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Title

Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone

Subject

Fisheries & related industries

Description

Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted access to fish in a designated area inside the 200 nautical mile Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ). However, crew and vessels are regularly apprehended for illegal fishing activity outside the permitted areas and, after prosecution in Australian courts, their boats and equipment are destroyed and the fishermen repatriated to Indonesia. This is an ethnographic study of one group of Indonesian maritime people who operate in the AFZ. It concerns Bajo people who originate from villages in the Tukang Besi Islands, Southeast Sulawesi. It explores the social, cultural, economic and historic conditions which underpin Bajo sailing and fishing voyages in the AFZ. It also examines issues concerning Australian maritime expansion and Australian government policies, treatment and understanding of Bajo fishing. The study considers the concept of “traditional” fishing regulating access to the MOU area based on use of unchanging technology, and consequences arising from adherence to such a view of “traditional”; the effect of Australian maritime expansion on Bajo fishing activity; the effectiveness of policy in providing for fishing rights and stopping illegal activity, and why Bajo continue to fish in the AFZ despite a range of ongoing restrictions on their activity.

Creator

Stacey, Natasha

Source

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33807

Publisher

ANU Press

Date

22 Desember 2021

Contributor

Agung BK

Rights

http://press.anu.edu.au/about/conditions-use

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_458834

Coverage

Fisheries & related industries

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