Indonesia’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) impounded 21 Indonesian fishing vessels and one foreign fishing vessel during a surveillance operations conducted in six Indonesian Fisheries Management Areas (WPPNRI) in mid-March 2022.
“In the operations carried out in the waters of Raja Ampat, Lampung, Peleng Strait, Tolo Bay, Riau Islands, Sulawesi Sea and Java Sea, we seized 21 Indonesian fishing vessels and one foreign fishing vessel,” said the Director General of Marine and Fishery Resources Supervision Rear Admiral Adin Nurawaluddin, in a statement here on Sunday.
Nurawaluddin said that the seizure of the vessels underscored the ministry’s seriousness in protecting marine and fishery resources from theft and illegal fishing practices.
He explained that in Raja Ampat, surveillance ship (KP) Hiu Macan 04 impounded two Indonesian fishing vessels, KM. Mattajang and KM. Cahaya Selamat 01, for being involved in a transhipment in breach of the existing rules…