Teknologi terumbu buatan: Suatu upaya untuk meningkatkan sumberdaya hayati laut

Artifical Reefs Technology: An Effort To Enhance The Coastal Living Resources. Several fishery resources in the western Indonesian waters have reached critical condition. The increase of exploitation on these resources will cause overfising. The existing critical condition will be more serious in the coming decades due to population increase and expanding of development activities. Rational management, therefore, of those resources is urgently needed. The article discusses the importance of artificial reefs as management tool in term of its function as aggregating device for fish and other marine lifes and in increasing their local concentration. Natural coral reef and artificial reefs are compared. Research on the structures is recommended in order to get technical, biological and sosio-economical input for its development. Proper monitoring of standing crop, yield, fishing effort and recruitment patterns of existing artificial reefs is also emphazised.