KKP Destroys 63 Predators In East Jakarta

Caption: KKP destroyed 63 predatory fish in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta. (Photo: Doc. KKP)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) destroyed 63 predatory fish at an ornamental fish shop in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta.

The shop has the name Showroom Predator and is quite well known among ornamental fish hobbyists.

Director General of Marine and Fishery Resources Supervision (PSDKP) Pung Nugroho Saksono (Ipunk) said that based on the results of the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) search through the analysis of public reports on social media, the ornamental fish store has quite a lot of followers on social media and is often the location for making predatory fish content or content creators and influence or influencers.

"The team then conducted searches on websites, social media, YouTube to marketplaces to check the truth of the information. And it is true that the shop trades various types of predatory fish which are included in the type of fish that are dangerous and/or harmful," said Ipunk as quoted from his official statement on the KKP official website, Monday, February 17.

Ipunk emphasized that trading in types of fish is dangerous and/or detrimental. This activity has also clearly been banned in the Fisheries Law and Regulation of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (PermenKP) Number 19 of 2020 concerning Prohibition of Income, Empowerment, Circulation and Expenditures of Dangerous Fish Types and/or Harmful to the Inside and From the State Fisheries Management Area of the Republic of Indonesia.

Meanwhile, Director of Fishery Resources Supervision Halid K. Jusuf said, the Fishery Supervisory Team of the PSDP Directorate, Jakarta PSDKP Base and the DKI Jakarta Provincial KPKP Office visited the ornamental fish shop on Thursday, February 13, and secured 63 predatory fish with a selling value of Rp68,000,000.

In detail, 18 Piranha fish (Pygocentrus spp.) worth IDR 900,000, 1 50 cm Arapaima gigas fish worth IDR 750,000, 31 Peacock bass fish (Chicla spp.) worth IDR 10,850,000, 11 Aligator gar fish (Lepisoscosteus spp.) measuring 40-60 cm worth IDR 50,500,000 and 2 Pike fish (Esox spp.) size 25 cm worth IDR 5,000,000.

"Our team persuasively explained to store owners regarding the prohibition and legal sanctions received if maintaining and/or trading types of fish are dangerous and/harming according to applicable regulations. Due to the awareness and willingness of shop owners, all of their predatory fish are handed over to fisheries supervisors to be destroyed on the spot," he concluded.