Maggots Replace Fishmeal
INDONESIA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in Indonesia has allocated more than half a million US dollars from the state budget this year to support...

Aquaculture Research Agreement Signed
INDONESIA - The agencies of Malaysia's Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry and Indonesia's Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS) together with Sirim Berhad, Mimos...

Indonesia Aims to Be Number One Fish Producer
INDONESIA - Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Minister, Fadel Muhammad believes that Indonesia should become the world's largest producer of fish and fish products...

2009 Crawford Fund Derek Tribe Award
INDONESIA - Prof Dr Ketut Sugama, Director Seed Development, Directorate General of Aquaculture, Jakarta, Indonesia, and formerly Director of the Research Center...

QL Resources Opens Surimi Plant In Indonesia
INDONESIA - QL Resources Bhd of Malaysia is to set up a fish paste processing plant in Surabaya, Indonesia.

NACA Announce Grouper Hatchery Training Course
INDONESIA - The Network of Aquaculture Centres Asia-Pacific (NACA) in collaboration with the Main Centre for Mariculture Development, Lampung, Indonesia, has announced...

Tackling Culture and Capture Conflicts in Indonesia
INDONESIA - Three years of scientific and socio-economic investigations have led to the development of new initiatives to aid fishing in Indonesian reservoirs, where...

Collapsed Dam Ruins Indonesian Fish Farms
INDONESIA - More than one hundred fish farmers, grouped together as the Petani Jaring Apung Budi Daya Air Tawar (Pejabat), have lost their livelihoods following...

High Feedstock Prices Sink Batur Lake Fish Growers
INDONESIA - Recent steep increases in the price of fish feedstock has placed fish farmers around Batur Lake, Kintamani district, Bangli regency, in a perilous...

Fish Offer New Lease of Life After Tsunami
INDONESIA - The deadly tsunami disaster on December, 2004 did not only devastate hundreds of thousands of lives and houses across Aceh Jaya, but also had changed...

Extending Resources to Aquaculture in Aceh
INDONESIA - The Aceh Aquaculture Communication Center (AACC) has been newly established by the Regional Centre for Brackishwater Aquaculture Development (BBAP) at...

Imminent Crisis in Indonesia
INDONESIA - An Indonesian coalition group has claimed that the national fisheries industry faces an imminent crisis

Fish Death: Perils of Farming on a Volcanic Lake
INDONESIA - 15,000 fish farms that lie on the rim of an Indonesian volcano-lake are being affected by recent volcanic activity. Officials now believe that 7,000...

Ministry Passes 84 Processing for Chinese Exports
INDONESIA - The Fisheries and Maritime Ministry will allow 84 local fish processing units (UPI) to export their products to China from 1 February 2009.

Grouper Hatchery Training Course a Success
INDONESIA - A total of 19 participants from 10 countries attended the 6th Regional Grouper Hatchery Production Training Course.