mon 14 dec 2015, 16:09

Indonesia blows up illegal fishing boats on

JAKARTA –

The economic growth in the legal fisheries in Indonesia last year more than 40 percent, after the country the war has been declared on illegal fishing.

Fishing boats in Indonesia.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Indonesia has about 17,000 islands and has the second longest coastline in the world. With 5.8 million square metres of Indonesian ocean waters is fishing is a major employer. Nevertheless, it halved the number of households that dependent on fisheries between 2003 and 2013, reports the Australian channel ABC.

The Indonesian Fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti announced over a year ago when it took office, the fight against illegal fishing, when it turned out that of all the six or seven fishing boats, only one was legal. Large visserstrawlers are no longer welcome in Indonesian waters and there should be only certain areas to be fished. Moreover, the ministry for more than forty boats to blow up, and used the images of the deterrence. Since then, more and more Indonesians for a honest existence as a fisherman.