Mukomuko To Involve Kejari In Fish Theft Control

Mukomuko/Antara Fisheries Department

JAKARTA - The Fisheries Service of Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu Province, this year will involve the local District Attorney's Office in supervising illegal fishing in sea and river waters of this area.

"We have involved the local Kejari as legal advisor for this service in carrying out surveillance activities for fishing theft in this area," said the Head of Capture Fisheries at the Mukomuko District Fisheries Service, Nasyyar, in Mukomuko, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, August 25.

The local Fisheries Service receives an annual allocation of funds for the operation of a special team to monitor illegal fishing both in rivers and in sea waters in this area.

He said the members of the fishing theft supervision team consisted of officers from the local Maritime and Fisheries Service, police, TNI AD and TNI AL, Pokmaswas, and this year there was an addition from the Kejari.

It is planned that fishing theft monitoring activities in sea and river waters in this area will be carried out four times, or less than six times in the previous year.

"We supervise fishing theft in sea and river waters in the region four times in accordance with the budget available in the APBD for this activity," he said. this region.

In addition, he said, his party was still waiting for the disbursement of the budget to form a team to supervise fishing theft in sea and river waters in this area.

According to him, the team will carry out operations to anticipate that people from the community will not catch fish using poison and centrifuges and use non-environmentally friendly fishing gear.

This surveillance activity is to prevent illegal fishing at sea using trawler fishing gear in the marine waters of this area.