Multidimensional analysis of capture fisheries business licensing management: case study of Arafura Sea

Fishing license, as a tool of fisheries management, is one of the popular instruments to control fish resources utilization. The purposes of fishing license for government are; (1) to optimalization of fish resources utilization; (2) to maintain fish resources sustainability; and (3) to gain the economic benefit as government revenue. As part of fisheries management, fishing license affect to many aspects of fisheries as ecology, economic, technology, social and ethic. Fishing license for large fisheries scale in Arafura Sea play an important role in Indonesia fisheries as government issued 1072 fishing license or almost 25 percent of total license issued for all Indonesian waters. Unfortunately, Arafura Sea faces many problem and issues like overfishing, IUU fishing, destructive of fish habitat and environment that threaten the sustainability of fisheries. So it's important to know the sustainability state of Arafura Sea in present to determine the best fishing license policy. The analysis of RAPFISH for sustainability of fisheries (including Leverage and Monte Carlo analysis) by major type of fisheries give some result as : (1) the fisheries of Arafura Sea is sustainable enough with score 53,86; (2) squid jigging, bottom longline, and gillnet fisheries are sustainable enough; but fish net and shrimp net are less sustainable: (3) the ecological dimension is good sustainable with score 72,43: but the ethic dimension is less sustainable with score 37,26. The leverage analysis shows the attributes which give the highest influence to each dimension as: (1) size of fish on ecology dimension ; (2) sector employment on economic dimension; (3) FAD (fish attracting devices) using and gear selectivity on technology dimension ; (4) education level on social dimension; and (5) just management on ethic dimension. It's recommended for Arafura Sea fisheries development to promote the sustainability fishing gears like squid jigging, bottom longline, and gillnet fisheries.Original Abstract: Perizinan penangkapan, sebagai alat pengelolaan ikan, merupakan salah satu instrumen yang populer untuk mengendalikan pemanfaatan sumberdaya ikan. Tujuan perizinan penangkapan ikan bagi pemerintah adalah: (1) untuk optimalisasi berkelanjutan sumberdaya ikan, (2) untuk mempertahankan keberlanjutan sumberdaya ikan, dan (3) untuk mendapatkan manfaat ekonomi sebagai pendapatan pemerintah. Sebagai bagian dari manajemen perikanan, perizinan penangkapan mempengaruhi banyak aspek perikanan seb