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Perceptions of fishermen communities against the establishment of conservation areas in Pongok Island, South Bangka
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Pongok Island has the potential of coastal ecosystems, namely mangrove, seagrass,
and coral reef. Recently, increasing use of bombs and potassium in fishing can be destructive
hence the ecosystems need to be conserved in order to be utilized sustainably. The
management in question is the establishment of a conservation area that involves fishing
communities so that an assessment of the community's perception of the determination of
conservation areas is needed. This study aims to determine the perception of fishing
communities towards the establishment of conservation areas in Pongok Island, South Bangka
Regency, Bangka Belitung Province, Republic of Indonesia. The selection of respondents was
done by using purposive sampling. Data analysis used is descriptive analysis to explain the
perception of the fishing community towards the determination of conservation areas. The
results of the study show that public perception is quite good because the highest percentage of
assessment level is found in the assessment criteria of agree and strongly agree. The
community perception on establisment of concervation areas is a high with the level of
strongly agree criteria of 34.418% and 55.105% agree criteria and low rating on appraisal
criteria are sufficient to agree at 8.827% and disagree at 1.650%.
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English
IOP Publishing
2019
IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 278 (2019) 012073
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