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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