April 26, 2011

Indonesia's Central Java exports over 16,000-tonne shrimps

The Central Java province of Indonesia has the capacity to export around 16,340 tonnes of shrimps per annum, head of Central Java's Fishery Service Subagyo said.

"Central Java has the big potential to export shrimps as it has regions which are shrimp production centers," Subagyo said on Monday (Apr 25).

He said that Central Java had six regions which constituted shrimp production centers.

The six regions are the districts of Demak, Kendal, Pemalang, Jepara, Pati and Brebes. The exported shrimps were in the form of frozen shrimps but some were also exported in the form of chips and in other form of packed shrimp products.

He said that Central Java also exported crabs and tuna. Cilacap is the biggest district producing tuna. The canning of tuna is also done in Cilacap.

"Most of the tuna fish is obtained from the southern coastal areas, namely in Cilacap district," Subagyo said.