#marine and fisheries

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Marine resource-rich Indonesia sets higher fish production, consumption target

Indonesia as one of the world`s largest maritime countries has about 5.8 million square kilometers of marine ...

Fisheries Ministry focus on central, regional govt synergy

The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) will focus on improving the synergy between central and regional ...

Bali to Produce 155,000 Tons of Seaweed

Bali aims at producing 155,000 tons of seaweed in 2011, head of the Bali fishery and marine agency Gusti Putu ...

RI's seaweed production target achievable

Indonesia`s target to be the world`s biggest seaweed producing country with an output of 10 million tons by 2015 is ...

Govt boosting national fish consumption

The government is trying to increase the country`s national fish production and the people`s per capita fish ...

Govt to dispatch rice supplies for fishermen

The government will dispatch rice stock for fishermen in several parts of Indonesia who temporarily cannot earn a ...

Govt urged to declare extreme weather national disaster

The People`s Coalition for Fisheries Justice (Kiara) has asked the government to declare the current extreme weather ...

RI projected to become global seaweed producer

Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad has the ambition not only to turn Indonesia into a top global ...

RI-US expedition finds 79 new species in Indonesian waters

Chairman of the Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) Marzan A. Iskandar said a number of new ...

Bangka-Belitung waters good for seaweed cultivation

Due to its geographic location, Bangka-Belitung (Babel) province has promising maritime and fisheries resources that ...

Babel to cultivate 1 million tons of seaweed

Bangka-Belitung (Babel) province has set itself the target of cultivating one million tons of seaweed up to 2015 in ...

Ministry to focus on minapolitan project

The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry is to focus on development of Minapolitan areas (fisheries cities) in 41 ...

Half of Bengkulu`s coral reefs damaged by fish trawls -

About 40 to 50 percent of Bengkulu province`s coral reefs have been damaged by trawls used by fishermen to catch fish, ...

Banten fishermen sell furniture to feed families

A number of traditional fishermen in Lebak district, Banten province, have sold their valuable furniture items, such ...

President opens BEI`s first trading session in 2011

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Monday opened the first Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) trading session of the ...