KKP Targets Sea Conservation Expansion To Reach 32.5 Million Hectares By 2030, This Is The Goal

Minister of KKP Sakti Wahyu Trenggono. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) targets the sea conservation area to reach 32.5 million hectares by 2030.

This serves to increase the protection of fish reforestation habitats and maintain the function of the sea to absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

"Currently, the area of marine conservation until 2022 reaches 28.9 million hectares or 8.7 percent of the total area of Indonesian waters and the KKP targets the conservation area to reach 32.5 million hectares by 2030," said Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono quoted, Wednesday, August 30.

Trenggono added that this effort was also made to achieve the target of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Sustainable Development Goals point 14, namely Life below Water.

"In the context of the importance of maintaining marine health as an effort to show resilience to climate change, resilience to meet the needs of world food sources and security for the future for mankind, a policy of expanding marine conservation areas is needed," he said.

In addition, Trenggono also revealed four other policies, namely quota-based measurable fishing, which is an effort to maintain marine health from excess exploitation or damage fishery resources, can cause over fishing, as well as the extinction of important species in the world.

"This measurable fishing will be carried out by implementing a quota system and catch zones with scientific bases and scientific data, so that the sustainability of fishery resources can be achieved not only focusing on the upstream industry, but also encouraging downstream fish landing bureaucracy," he said.

The third policy is the development of coastal and land marine cultivation that is sustainable.

This is an effort to reduce the pressure of the capture fisheries sector through increasing the role of the cultivation sector.

"The fourth policy is the supervision and control of coastal areas and small islands as an effort to maintain the health of coastal areas that have an important role as a buffer for marine ecosystems," said Trenggono.

The last or fifth policy is to clean plastic waste through the participation movement of fishermen or the month of love for the sea.

"Through this month of love for the sea, KPP invites fishermen for one full month to pick up and collect plastic waste at sea," he concluded.