Eco-Marine-Tourism Program for Coastal Communities Sustainable Development in Gerokgak District, Bali, Indonesia

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the geographical indication for grouper products in Gerokgak district, to find management efforts to guard coastal and marine healthy and to invent a model for coastal eco-marine-tourism. Survey, FGD and laboratory examination were used for methods. The Grouper aquaculture products both seeds and fishes of Cantang cultivar on the coast of Gerokgak district had been excellent due to the appropriate geographic factors, favourable quality of coastal, marine waters, climate and the unique culture of the local community which was identified as Nyegare-Gunung cultivation. The Geographical Indications for Cantang grouper potentially to provide opportunities for fishery producers to consolidate and increase prices on the market. They can strengthen the product position in the domestic and international markets and to penetrate the new export market. The development of eco-marine-tourism should control the degradation of environmental quality for grouper aquaculture by creating customary rules of AwigAwig and Subak for coastal villages, and implementation to achieve rationality in utilizing coastal and marine resources harmoniously with the system of values in tradition, religion, aspiration, and culture of the local communities. To keep grouper products towards a certification that the products possess certain qualities and the production process was met the requirement of local integrated marinculture methods, due to Gerokgak's geographical origin. Marketing tour packages of the activities, products, and landscapes of the marinculture by setting up Eco-marine-tourism management which follow community-based tourism.