Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono presented the fisheries village program to the Regional Representative Council (DPD RI) here on Tuesday.
The program envisions two types of fisheries villages: Kampung Nelayan Maju, a village specialized for increasing fishers’ welfare, and Kampung Perikanan Budidaya, a village focused on aquaculture, he explained.
“The fishers’ villages will be built in 120 locations and aquaculture villages in 130 locations,” Trenggono said.
According to the minister, the fishers’ village program aims to strengthen economic resilience and encourage development in the regions.
Under the Kampung Nelayan Maju program, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries will provide facilities such as boats, fishing gear, and boat machines, he informed.
The collaboration will also cover fuel and energy, health and workers’ security insurance, education, and business institution improvements through fishers’ cooperatives, he said.
Meanwhile, the Kampung Perikanan Budidaya program will be divided into three categories: one for freshwater commodities, such as goldfish, catfish, and shark catfish; second for brackish water commodities such as milkfish and saline tilapia; and third for sea commodities, such as groupers, snappers, and star pomfret, he added.
Through the program, the ministry is targeting to increase fishers’ terms of trade and fish cultivator’s terms of trade, thus creating social protection, increasing human resources capacity, and the people’s business scale, he said.
Moreover, Trenggono pointed out, the program can boost ecological resilience and improve environmental quality as well as protect commodities that have economic value from extinction.
Furthermore, he said he expected that with the acceleration of the breakthrough programs, the marine and fisheries sector would become the backbone of the national economy in the future.
“We hope that the ministry’s implementation of several 2022 priority activities in the regions would have an impact on improving national welfare and economy while paying attention to ecological sustainability,” he added.
Source: Antara News