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Vessel Tracking System Installation in Tayu Central Java to support Sustainability and Traceability of BSC Fishery Product in Indonesia

by adminapri April 5, 2018 0 comments

The small scale BSC fisheries improvement program (FIP) in Indonesia has grown rapidly since 2009, when members of APRI (Indonesian Blue Swimming Crab Association) initiated the National Fishery Improvement Program (FIP) in BSC Fishery. To improve one of the FIP’s program, APRI seeks to improve the quality of data collection, especially focusing on the first supply chain BSC Fishermen. One of them by installation of Vessel Tracking tool to help record the location of the spread of BSC especially on crab fishermen boat.

APRI has been installed Vessel Tracking System to BSC fishermen boat in Tayu Central Java on April 3, 2018. This activity will expected support sustainability and traceability in supply chain  PT.  Sumber Mina Bahari (SMB). The vessel tracking tool used called TrekFish made by Department of Fisheries and Marine Science laboratory, Bogor Agricultural University. The movement of fishermen boats and location of the BSC catch can be known so that the location of catching and also the enumeration data can be synergized to get the catch per catch effort. So that sustainability and tracebility of crab farming can be maintained.

We are developing a BSC-specific ground-truthing data set to support the upcoming pilot work with the control document and fisher stewardship program, and observing and evaluating the current data flow, data handling, and data gaps within the existing supply chain. We will determine where and how vessel tracking can fill gaps, and what developments may be required to fully integrate new data stream into the existing system in the most user-friendly manner possible.