The smuggling of rare and expensive lobster seeds in Indonesia
Fresh Common Lobster
Indonesia
Published May 18, 2022
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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Lobster cultivators in West Nusa Tenggara admit that it is difficult to get seeds. One of the reasons put forward is due to the large number of seed catchers who choose to export illegally. Amin Abdullah, a cultivator in Jukung Bay, West Nusa Tenggara, said that currently many farmers in his area have difficulty getting lobster seeds and they are expensive. "From our point of view, illegal lobster shipments can be seen as making fry rare and increasingly expensive at the cultivator's level," he told CNBC Indonesia, Tuesday (17/5/2022). He gave the example of Floating Net Cages (KJA) for cultivators, which used to be filled with 20 holes, currently only 5-7 holes are filled. "One KJA hole contains 75 birds, so at most there are only 5-7, the rest do not contain. So indeed we still have activities but the volume is decreasing," he said. Amin explained that the circulation of clear lobster seeds was difficult to obtain. This is due to the large number of ...
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