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67577
Thu, 06/25/2009 - 09:24
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EU'S CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT NOT TO DECREASE RI'S FISHERY EXPORTS
Jakarta, June 24 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government believes the country's fishery exports to the European Union will not drop due to the EU's policy requiring those exports to be covered by certificates.
"I am optimistic we are prepared. So our exports to EU will not drop," the director general of processing and marketing of fishery products of the ministry of fishery and marine resources, Martani Huseini, said here on Wednesday.
The country's total fishery exports in 2008 reached US$2.6 billion a year and 30 percent of them went to EU.
"So far exports to Japan remain the biggest reaching 35 to 45 percent of total exports a year," he said.
He said however that exports to EU were important because their value was higher than the value of exports to other countries.
"The EU is the best in terms of price compared to other countries and is not too demanding," Martani said.
He said right now there were 27 new rich countries in the Europen Union and they had bigger capacity to buy premium fishery products than the US.
He said the EU was now also friendlier to fishery products from Indonesia proven by the fact that it had never rejected products from the country so far.
"What has become a problem now is shortage in our supply. This has happened because catch is dwindling while breeding is minimum," he said.
Regarding the EU requirements Martani said the problem faced by the country's fishermen was that they were not used to making records.
"Only big ships conduct recording in log books but small fishermen never does that. This is what has to be familiarized," he said.
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"I am optimistic we are prepared. So our exports to EU will not drop," the director general of processing and marketing of fishery products of the ministry of fishery and marine resources, Martani Huseini, said here on Wednesday.
The country's total fishery exports in 2008 reached US$2.6 billion a year and 30 percent of them went to EU.
"So far exports to Japan remain the biggest reaching 35 to 45 percent of total exports a year," he said.
He said however that exports to EU were important because their value was higher than the value of exports to other countries.
"The EU is the best in terms of price compared to other countries and is not too demanding," Martani said.
He said right now there were 27 new rich countries in the Europen Union and they had bigger capacity to buy premium fishery products than the US.
He said the EU was now also friendlier to fishery products from Indonesia proven by the fact that it had never rejected products from the country so far.
"What has become a problem now is shortage in our supply. This has happened because catch is dwindling while breeding is minimum," he said.
Regarding the EU requirements Martani said the problem faced by the country's fishermen was that they were not used to making records.
"Only big ships conduct recording in log books but small fishermen never does that. This is what has to be familiarized," he said.
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