Special Assistant to the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries for Media and Public Communication for the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) Doni Ismanto revealed that the number of clear lobster seeds suspected of leaving Indonesia illegally reached 1 million per day.
“With foreign demand of that size, we assume that a million fry are smuggled a day, meaning the potential loss to the state a year reaches IDR 52.925 trillion to IDR 54.75 trillion, assuming the benchmark fish price or HPI is around IDR 150 thousand per fish. If it turns out to be 600 million “From Indonesia, the total value might be around IDR 87 trillion to IDR 90 trillion,” said Doni as quoted from Between, Tuesday (7/5).
In response to this, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono took strategic steps to strengthen supervisory synergy with other law enforcement agencies, carried out a governance transformation by issuing Ministerial Regulation No. 7/2024 and its derivative regulations, and intensified education for fishermen to participate. fighting lobster seed smuggling.
KKP is also actively carrying out diplomatic efforts with the Vietnamese government to jointly combat the practice of lobster seed smuggling. This effort was greeted positively with the birth of fisheries cooperation between the two countries, as well as the commitment of the Vietnamese government to support its cultivation using certified lobster seeds from Indonesia.
“The Vietnamese government has committed to encouraging its cultivation using certified lobster seeds from Indonesia,” added Doni.
Acting Director General of Marine and Fisheries Resources Supervision (PSDKP) KKP Pung Nugroho Saksono stated that smuggling clear lobster seeds (BBL) abroad has various modus operandi using land, sea and even air routes. “So the method is from fishermen to collectors, collectors to distributors. (It’s taken) starting from Lombok, continuing to the west and the estuary here is Palembang and Jambi. So when you come from Palembang and Jambi you use the sea route,” he said. (Ant/Z-10)
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