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...

Indonesia's Shrimp Farmers Want End to Imports
INDONESIA - Shrimp producers and researchers are demanding an end to imports because of the threats of the entry of disease, a collapse in prices and toxic chem...

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...

Indonesia Struggles to Fulfil Shrimp Export Orders
INDONESIA - Indonesia is unable to meet around one-third of shrimp export orders as the result of shortages in supply from the shrimp industry.

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...

Crossbred Shrimp for Robustness and Resilience
INDONESIA - Government-funded scientists genetically developed a more robust and resilient kind of farmed shrimp, IVN-1, by crossbreeding Indonesian shrimp with...

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...

Indonesia's Perfect Fish Not Cheap Enough
INDONESIA - During the past three years, the Indonesian government has been trying to encourage the cultivation of farmed fish, rather than catching them wild. One...

WWF Slams 'Failed' Tuna Regulations
BALI, INDONESIA - A recent meeting of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission has been accused of failing to regulate one of the world's largest tuna fisheries.

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...

New Catfish Species Found
SUMATRA - A new species of catfish has been discovered in Sumatra.

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

COOL Shrimp Tests Baffle Authorities
INDONESIA - One of the world's largest grower/processors has come under attack for its country of origin testing methods. Customs and border protection have said...

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.

Shrimp Farmers Move from Mangroves to Ocean
INDONESIA - The rapid expansion of traditional shrimp farms in Lampung has not only damaged mangrove swamps but forced local fishermen to seek their catch in the...

New Species of Catfish Discovered in Sumatra
SUMATRA, INDONESIA - Scientists from Indonesia and USA have described a new species of miniature bagrid catfish from southern Sumatra.

Biofuel from Seaweed for Korea and Indonesia
INDONESIA - A joint project has been launched between the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH)and the Indonesian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources...

Culture, Capture, Conflicts in Indonesia
INDONESIA - Phase two of the ACIAR-funded project Culture, capture conflicts: Sustaining fish production and livelihoods in Indonesian Reservoirs got underway...

Asia Pacific Fisheries Conference
INDONESIA - Fishery management problems in the Asia-Pacific region were centre of discussions in a Regional Consultation Forum Meeting (RCFM) which opened on We...