ABSTRACT
Seaweed is a high economic commodity, but it does not contribute much to community welfare; therefore, this chapter outlines how seaweed cultivation could improve community welfare in coastal areas and small islands using the holistic-integral approach S-O-M (Subject, Object, and Method) Analysis. The actual condition of seaweed cultivation is a low contribution to the community welfare in the coastal area and small islands due to limited domesticated species, low carrying capacity and production of brackish water ponds, low technology input, and low product quality. Domestication is considered a long and complex process in which domesticators choose and modify organisms that can thrive in the human ecological environment and express traits of interest to human use. The brackish water pond production with intermediate technology, the input technology is the fertilizer, fish or shrimp juvenile, water pumps, and artificial feed. The leading cause of low product quality is low carrying capacity and low economic capacity.
