KKP Pacu Blue Economy Program Pacu Grows Industri Downstreaming Fisheries Sector

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono revealed that the blue economy program was able to spur the growth of the downstream industry in the fisheries sector in Indonesia, such as quota-based measurable fishing to sustainable shrimp pond development.

"There is a quota-based measurable fishing policy, where later the ship must depart and land the catch at the same port and the fish cannot be transferred to other vessels before it is landed to be calculated," Trenggono said in a written statement, quoted from Antara, Friday, February 10.

With the presence of a measurable fishing policy (PIT), Trenggono said, it will encourage the growth of fishery downstream industries around ports, such as fishing processing units, distribution of fishery products, and other efforts to support fishery productivity.

This is because the fishing mechanism requires fishing vessels to land fisheries in fishery ports that have been set by the government, namely around the location of the arrest, resulting in equitable distribution of economic growth in the area around the fishing site, so that they are no longer concentrated on the island of Java.

Furthermore, the blue economy policy will also encourage the downstream of aquaculture sub-sector in Indonesia. Currently, the KKP is building a sustainable shrimp pond model in Kebumen, Central Java containing 149 pond plots on an area of 69 hectares.

Productivity per hectare of the pond reaches 40 tons per year and is able to generate an economic value of IDR 400 billion. In addition to Kebumen, a similar pond model will be built in other regions to boost national shrimp production, which is targeted to reach 2 million tons by 2024.

For information, five KKP blue economy programs include expanding the target of water conservation areas, implementing a quota-based measurable fishing policy, developing environmentally friendly fishery cultivation, especially for export-seeded commodities (edang, crabs, seaweed, lobsters), sustainable management of coastal and small islands, and handling plastic waste in the sea through the Cinta Laut Month program.