Bali hosts fishery conference

Bali hosts fishery conference

KUTA, Bali: The management and regulation of migratory fish
resources would be one important topic discussed in the five-day
international conference on fisheries, Minister of Fishery and
Mariime Affairs Rokhmin Dahuri said here on Monday.

"This is an important issue because migratory fish, such as
tuna, cannot be managed by one single country alone," he said at
the Conference for the Establishment of the Western and Central
Pacific Fisheries Commission (PrepCom VI WCPFC).

The conference is being attended by 196 delegates from 24
countries.

Dahuri said participating countries should sit down together
and develop a policy to ensure all could get the most benefit
from these resources.

The conference would also consider the establishment of a
fisheries commission. The commission would attempt to foster
cooperation between countries in the Western and Central Pacific
regions to manage fishery resources, he said.

"Indonesia would get several privileges in the (proposed)
commission since we are one of the WCPFC's founding countries,"
Dahuri said, without going into details. --JP