Source: Antara
The Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Fadel Muhammad reviewed the building process of Nusantara fishing port in Makassar’s Untia Neighborhood on Monday (30/08). The visited to this port was in accordance with his promise to the governor of South Sulawesi, Syahrul Yasin Limpo during a meeting in Jakarta on August 19.
A number of marine and fisheries rehabilitation programs have been implemented by DisKP of Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi, during the last couple of years, with a total budget reaching billions of rupiah.
As an effort to intensify and synergize partnership with Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) for sustainable and responsible management of marine resources, an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between WWF-Indonesia and KKP, on Monday (23/08) at KKP’s office, Central Jakarta.
The aim of this scheme is to provide ecology and conservation books to those from outside Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand who would otherwise be unable to obtain them. The simple purpose of this scheme is to spread ecological knowledge as widely as possible.
"The budget allocation from small islands development this year has risen to 25 percent and we hope it will rise again," Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry Director for Small Islands Empowerment, Toni Ruchimat said after an international symposium on small islands and coral reefs here on Wednesday(04/8).
Indonesia extends ban on shrimp imports especially frozen shrimp and not frozen product for shrimp species like Penaeus Vanamae. This ban was purposes to prevent the spread of dangerous viruses into the country. While the shrimp are not included in the species of Penaeus Vanamae, as in form (head on) or (head less). 
Export demand for blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) is growing yearly. Unfortunately, availability of this crab is decreasing, because market demand is primarily met with crab from capture fisheries of natural stocks. Amongst other regions, this phenomenon can be seen in Takalar district, South Sulawesi.
Bulukumba district government, South Sulawesi Province, will hold the Phinisi Festival 2010.This national tourism event will be centered in Cape Bira, Bulukumba, and will be held on 5-9 October 2010, said the head of marketing and promotion at the department of culture and tourism Bulukumba, Hj Andi Pamenery, Friday.(16/07)
