Fish meal can be exported

Fish meal can be exported

JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Industry and Trade said
yesterday that certain kinds of fish meal could still be
exported, clarifying a previous announcement banning the reexport
of the product which is subsidized by the government.

"The decree (dated July 27) applies to the export of fish
meals and pellets fit for human consumption which are used in
infant food and are not produced locally," the ministry said in a
statement.

Products that can be exported are "fish meals and pellets
unfit for human consumption", which are produced by local
companies.

These products are made from the wastage in fish canneries.
The current domestic fish meal production capacity is 150,000
tons a year, six percent or 2.5 million tons of which is sold to
the country's poultry feed producers. (das)