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It\'s Time to Develop the Marine Industry

Discourse on re-exporting baby lobsters is coloring the media amid the government\'s intension to revise policies that prohibit shrimp exports.

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Bahar, 47, chairperson of the Bintang Fajar Fishermen Group, shows a lobster at development cages of one of the group members in Soropia village, Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi, Sunday (15/12/2019). Lobster raising fishermen in this area are hindered by the difficulty to get baby lobsters and the lack of government attention.

Pros and cons of baby lobster exports emerged after Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Edhy Prabowo said he would revise the rules regarding lobsters. The government issued Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministerial Regulation No. 56/2016 concerning the prohibition of catching and taking lobsters (Panulirus spp), crabs (Scylla spp), and rajungan (Portunus spp) out of Indonesian territory.

The regulation regarding baby lobster exports is only one of 29 regulations in the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry that are being evaluated. Regulations regarding lobsters, according to Edhy, cause polemics (Kompas, 19/12/2019). The evaluation will bring together the sustainability of the fishermen and natural environment.

Editor:
Syahnan Rangkuti
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