Fishers’ responses to the Danish seiner ban and the history of fisheries governance on the Java north coast

摘要: In 2015, the Indonesian government announced that it would prohibit operation of so-called cantrang (Danish Seine). The stated purpose ban was to make marine fisheries more environmentally sustainable. response, fishers along north coast Java staged mass protests, and after 3 years negotiations uncertainty, exempted fleets on from policy. This paper analyses fishers’ responses a historical ethnographic perspective. Specifically, compares two earlier interventions in coast, one 1905, second 1980/81. With each intervention, new governance principle introduced small-scale fisheries, established elites transferred their capital elsewhere, emerged who supported locally. Since however, only very few members have exited fishery, no local elite yet support sustainability as for fisheries. aims clarify why this case. More generally, suggests understanding history requires attention role elites, therefore social differentiations among fishers.