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Virus Hits Southeast Sumatra

Indonesia’s shrimp production and exports will likely fall in 2009. A shrimp virus has attacked 62,100 hectares of shrimp ponds in Lampung Province, Sumatra.

Fajar I Reksoprodjo, corporate communication manager at CP Prima, which operates the world’s largest shrimp farm in Lampung, said the virus attacked all shrimp farms in the province, especially those managed by small-scale independent farmers.

Source: Seafood.com (an online, subscription-based, fisheries news service). Shrimp virus attacks center of Indonesia’s shrimp production. Ken Coons (phone 1-781-861-1441, email kencoons@seafood.com). Editor and Publisher, John Sackton (phone 1-781-861-1441, email jsackton@seafood.com). May 5, 2009.

brood stock import will cut by 70%

Indonesia hopes its two new shrimp hatcheries will cut brood stock imports by 70 percent

SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Asia Pulse] - June 1, 2009 - JAKARTA, Indonesia hopes to slash by 70 per cent its imports of shrimps in brood stock and parent stock after its breeding centers start production toward the end of this year.

So far annual requirement of parent shrimps and shrimps in brood stock have been supplied almost entirely through imports.

This year, the government hopes to increase shrimp production to 540,000 tons for which 900,000 parent shrimps and 52.31 billion shrimps in fry will be needed, an official said.

Fishery and Fish Breeding Director General Made L. Nurdjana said Indonesia has imported 90 per cent of its shrimp fry and parent shrimps mainly from the United States.

The fishery ministry plans to build two Brood stock Centers breeding high quality Vaname shrimps in Situbondo and Bali expected to turn out 4.5 million shrimp parent by October, 2009.

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Scientists successfully crossbreed shrimp

Scientists successfully crossbreed shrimp

INDONESIA
Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 03:30 (GMT + 9)

Government-funded scientists genetically developed a more robust and resilient kind of farmed shrimp, IVN-1, by crossbreeding Indonesian shrimp with US broodstock. The new disease-resistant breed grows faster and is better adjusted to the local climate, which makes for cheaper cultivation of the stock.

“[IVN-I] is highly resistant to shrimp disease and can be harvested faster for a more affordable price,” said Made L. Nurdjana, the ministry’s director general of aquaculture, the Jakarta Globe reports.

Already last week, two facilities in Situbondo and Karangasem in Bali were producing IVN-1 shrimp for distribution to farmers throughout the country. Shrimp farmers will be able to purchase the product at the low price of IDR 50,000 - IDR 75,000 (USD 4.90 - USD 7.34) - just 16-18 per cent of the US broodstock cost, according to Nurdjana.

“The more affordable the broodstock is, the less farmers have to pay to buy shrimp fry,” he said. “By using new varieties, for example, farmers will only have to pay IDR 15 (USD 0.0015) per shrimp fry. This can reduce production costs.”

Shrimp farms in Indonesia need a vannamei broodstock of 900,000 - 965,000 annually and, thus far, the country cannot meet this amount on its own. Consequently, it must expensively import 320,000 vannamei parents, mostly originating from the US, to complement its national production of 643,000.

US broodstock from the State of Florida costs Indonesian farmers IDR 300,000 - IDR 400,000 (USD 29.37 - USD 39.16) per pair, which is equivalent to IDR 35 (USD 0.0034) per fry. Each pair of broodstock, when of the highest quality, can spawn 700,000 fry.

The new type of shrimp takes three and half months to grow to harvest size as opposed to the Florida shrimp’s four-month period, which translates into handsome savings for Indonesian farmers, in that IVN-1 is also resistant to disease.

“This could push smaller breeders to develop new varieties and reduce national dependency on bigger companies,” said Iwan Sutanto, chairman of the Indonesian Shrimp Club.

The shrimp cultivation industry is highly important in Indonesia, a business worth USD 2.3 billion in exports, 30 per cent, or USD 690.3 million, of which are directed to the US market.

EU REQUIRES NEW REGULATIONS FOR INDONESIAN SEAFOOD

EU Requires New Regulations for Indonesian Seafood

EU - The EU requires all fishery imports from Indonesia to be certificated from January 2010 as part of its sustainable fisheries policy, to curb illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

The Directorate General for Distribution of Fishery Products said in a published statement Sunday that the certification applies to all fishery products except fish from fresh water farming, aquariums, shellfish, seaweed, scallops, oysters and some other specific items.

"The new regulation concerning the EU certification requirement correlates with the EU's reputation as the best in implementing a high quality of fish in relation to sustainable fisheries," said spokesperson for the director general, Soen'an H. Poernomo. He was confirming that there would be a new regulatory framework to ensure certification standards could be met, reports TheJakartaPost.

According to TheJakartaPost, Soen'an said the new certificate must be filled in by local exporters who already had an "approval number" and details should be filed with competent local authorities to complete the validation process.

"This would mean that all exported fishery products are produced from fishing activities that comply with all existing best practices in fishery management and conservation," he said.

The certification would also take account of variables such as the period needed for shipment from Indonesia to Europe and how long the fishery products stayed in cold storage during shipment, Soen'an said.

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