Destructive Fishing Criminal Policy in Fisheries Management Area (WPP) 715 Seram Sea

Destructive fishing activities are still a habit of the community around the Seram Sea fisheries management area (WPP). This study aims to analyze the policy of overcoming the crime of destructive fishing in the Seram Sea WPP. Data were collected employing in-depth interviews, literacy studies, and document reviews and then analyzed qualitatively. The results show that destructive fishing activities such as bombs, potassium, and other destructive activities by the community around the Seram Sea WPP can damage the marine ecosystem. So that a destructive fishing prevention policy is needed. This policy can be pursued in two approaches, namely the means of criminal law (penal) and means of non-criminal law (non-penal). Crime prevention policy using a disciplinary approach is a repressive effort that can be taken through legislation or several legal rules in fisheries that contain criminal sanctions. However, the penal policy still creates weaknesses, so it needs to be balanced with a non-penal policy. The non-penal approach is a preventive effort that can be taken through various socialization to the community, increasing community participation, and various other approaches to minimize destructive fishing activities.