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Meeting of the Action Plan Team for the Sustainable BSC Management in West Java Province

by adminapri December 16, 2021 0 comments

December 7-8 2021, In the context of preparing the Action Plan for Blue Swimming Crab Management Sustainability in West Java Province, Department of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Java Province The West will hold a meeting with fisheries stakeholdersWest Java crab to finalize the Draft Management Action Plan Sustainable BSC Fishery West Java Province.

APRI was also present at the activity as a team for preparing an action plan for sustainable fisheries management through West Java Governor Decree number 523.05/Kep.751-Rek/2020.

The blue swimming crab has a strategic role in the Indonesian economy. Not only in the form of foreign exchange, but also employment. Director General of Strengthening the Competitiveness of Marine and Fishery Products (PDSPKP), Artati Widiarti said crab-crab is one of Indonesia’s main fishery export commodities and is one of the focus commodities to be developed in the KKP breakthrough program in order to increase aquaculture-based exports.

Mrs. Artati Widiarti said the demand for world crabs reached US$ 5.4 billion (Rp 77 trillion) last year. However, Indonesia’s exports of this commodity only reached 6.8% or US$ 367.5 million (Rp 5.2 trillion). In the January to October 2021 period, the export value of Indonesian fishery products reached US$ 4.56 billion (Rp 65 trillion) or an increase of 6.6% compared to the same period in 2020. The main export commodities include Shrimp (40%), Tuna-Cakalang -Cob (13%), Crab-Blue Swimming Crab (11%), Squid-Cut-Octopus (10%), and Seaweed (6%).

So this action plan is to manage the blue swimming crab from overfishing, and make the blue swimming crab in wes java sustainable. healthy stock and sustainable industry