Sakti Wahyu Targets The Development Of 55 Fish Cultivation Industries In Integrated Ports

Minister of Marine and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) is targeting the development of 55 fish cultivation industries in the integrated port development plan.

Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), Sakti Wahyu Trenggono said this development was to support the National Fish Barn (LIN) program. The development objective is to integrate existing processes from upstream to downstream.

"Then the 4 shipbuilding industries are expected to grow there. The absorption of energy includes 20.000 fishermen or crew, 500 fishery port officers, 2.000 fish traders, 11.000 fishery industry workers", he explained in an electronic message reported by Antara, Sunday, February 14.

He stated that the government continues to strengthen the development of the National Fish Barn program in Maluku, among others, through cross-sector coordination meetings with ministries and agencies that are always held to discuss plans for integrated port development.

He explained that the potential for capture fisheries in the three Maluku State Fisheries Management Areas (WPPNRI) is considered very large.

"Opportunities that have not been exploited will reach 2.315 million tons in 2019, so if we use only 25 percent or 579 thousand tons, it is estimated that the economic turnover per day there can reach IDR 31 billion. This figure is still sourced from capture fisheries production, not cultivated fisheries", he said.

Trenggono expressed his desire to build a fish meal factory there. This development is important to minimize imports of products that are the raw material for making fish feed.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Bahlil Lahadalia hopes that the construction of an integrated port as the basic infrastructure for the National Fish Barn program can be carried out immediately.

Bahlil believes that the program will build new economic sources in the oceans and lands of Maluku. The construction of the port itself will be carried out by the Ministry of Transportation together with the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

"The President wants all processing to be carried out on land, with the understanding that state and regional revenues can be controlled, creating new economic growth areas, creating new jobs, and building economic ecosystems on land", said Bahlil.