People Daily Online, 13:48, November 21, 2009
Indonesia should be alerted of fish crisis as the symptom towards it grows, reflected by sharp decrease on fisheries resources due to over exploitation, rampant fish theft and increasing production target without support of resources improvement, Kompas daily quoted experts as saying in Yakata on Saturday.
They said that if the government does nothing about it, the national food resilience would be threatened.
Riza Damanik, Secretary General of the People Coalition for Fisheries Justice, said that fisheries policy oriented on production and export increase have yet to be supported by processing industry optimizing.
Meanwhile, rampant fish theft at Indonesian waters drains the national resources and decreases local fishermen's income.
"Without correction on fishery policy, Indonesia is predicted to suffer a fish crisis in 2015," said Riza.
Arif Satria, the Director of Strategic Research and Evaluation at the Bogor Agriculture Institute, said that the target of increasing fisheries product of 300 percent should be reviewed because it could be the backfire for sustainable fisheries resources.
Previously, the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries set a target to help Indonesia to be the biggest fish producer in the world by speeding up production by 300 percent.
Source: Xinhua
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