Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian and Australian governments will conduct a campaign to fishermen in six provinces telling them not to catch fish in the waters in the border regions of the two countries, an official said.
The fishing ban will be imposed on the waters of Indonesia`s six provinces bordering with Australian waters, Soen`an Hadi Purnomo, head of center of information and statistical data of the Marine and Fishery Ministry said here Sunday.
According to him, the fishing ban declared in a series of workshops in the six provinces East Java, Papua, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, and Maluku.
Counseling on the fishing ban will be held by the DKP jointly with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) for sustainable fishery management in the two countries` border.
In addition, Augy Syahailatua, head of marine resources division at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) said that to date, Indonesian traditional fishermen have been accustomed to fishing at the waters border.
Based on MoU Box/1974, an agreement was reached on the overlapping waters border especially at the Pulau Pasir and Pulau Baru, which become Indonesian jurisdiction over the swimming fisher management.
Meanwhile Australia has jurisdiction over sedentary fish species such as shellfish (tripang in Indonesian).
In Jakarta on March 24, some 20 fishermen and non-governmental organization (NGO) activists from South Sulawesi staged a demonstration outside the Australian Embassy, demanding compensation for fishing boats Australian authorities had burned.
"We ask for compensation for our fishing boats Australia has burned," Haeruddin, one of the fishermen, told the press here.
He said Australian authorities had confiscated and torched his boat in the southern part of Indonesia`s East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) provincial waters.
When the incident happened, his boat was still tens of miles away from the Indonesia-Australia sea border, Haeruddin added.
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