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Empowering A-B-G-C to Promote Simping Clam (Amusium pleuronectes) as one of the way out line to raise the welfare of Fishers and Regional Income in Northern-Coast of Central Java-INDONESIA: with Special Reference to Brebes Regency as the Pilot Project Public Deposited

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  • Simping clam are found spreadly in the nourthern coast of Java sea. Its taste is sweet and delicious. People in the coast served in boiled or fried with mixed vegetable for their dish. In fact, simping clam is considered as the pretigeous menu in international hotel and restaurant. At the sametime, the shell mightbe used for decorative accesories and material for tile, etc. This clam live in wild and the production will reach a peak season in a couples of months only (December to March) for every year. Brebes lies in the north-west of Central Java sea is considered as one of the centra production of simping clam. The chain of existing production-consumption-marketing are mostly managed conventionally. The averaged production is about 2 tonn per day with price approx. Per kg of Rp.6,000 to Rp.7,000 (include shell) but when shell-less the price is about Rp.40,000 per kg. The potential demand and value added of simping clam is very prospective to raise the fishers’ and regional income. This study is a collaborative action-research where involve the competence stakeholders, i.e. academician (A), business (B), government (G) and community (C). The concept of comanagement approach [(Pomeroy and William, 1994) and Susilowati (1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007)]; combined with the findings of fishers empowerment studies (Susilowati et al., 2004 and 2005) will used to outline the strategy in promoting simping clam as the fisheries product of Brebes as one of the way-out line to raise the regional income and fishers’ welfare.
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  • Susilowati, Indah, Ita Widowati, Tri Winarni Agustini and Amin Budi Raharjo. 2008. Empowering A-B-G-C to Promote Simping Clam (Amusium pleuronectes) as one of the way out line to raise the welfare of Fishers and Regional Income in Northern-Coast of Central Java-INDONESIA: with Special Reference to Brebes Regency as the Pilot Project. 11 pages. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, July 22-25, 2008, Nha Trang, Vietnam: Achieving a Sustainable Future: Managing Aquaculture, Fishing, Trade and Development. Compiled by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 2008.
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  • US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Division, The Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada; Aquaculture CRSP and AquaFish CRSP; Minh Phu Seafood Corporation; Vietnam Datacommunication Company (VDC); Camau Frozen Seafood Processing Import Export Corporation (Camimex); Long Sinh Limited Company; Mai Linh Group and Nam Viet Corporation.
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