End Year Quarterly Meeting 2014

The Association of Indonesian Crab Producers  (APRI) End Year Quarterly Meeting 2014 was held in Semarang on 6^th December 2014. The meeting was attended by all active members in a total of 26 participants. The goal of the meeting was to oversee industry led improvements to the blue swimming crab fishery, evaluation of the Indonesian crab fishery, and to develop further APRI as an organization.  APRI was founded in 2007 with the expressed purpose of improving the Indonesian crab fishery with the goal of making this fishery sustainable. APRI is made up of 14 crab processing companies that together represent 80% of the crab exports volume from Indonesia.   These efforts have been widely recognized by the international NGO community as one of the best, industry-led fisheries improvement programs in the world.