fishermen complain about the ban on the use of fishing gear

The fishermen continued to complain of candy No. 2 of 2015 on the Prohibition of the Use of Fishing trawler Hela (trawlers) and trawl Pull (Seinen Nets). This Regulation will enter into force on 1 January 2017. On the other hand the Government has not provided a solution for the implementation of the candy.

Vice-chairman of Commission IV when he met Daniel Johan fishing communities in West Kalimantan, Thursday (1/12) says Candy prohibits 17 types of fishing gear. "Information from Central Java, East Java and Banten in November 2016 there were 38 thousand vessels fishing involves 760 thousand people affected, not including West Java and Kalimantan," said Daniel.

Daniel said that the government is obliged to provide legal protection to fishermen affected Candy KP No. 2/2015 to be able to keep doing fishing operation. During a meeting with fishermen in TPI Kalbar River Market snapper Pontianak, Daniel Johan reiterate that lest there Kalbar fishermen who could not go to sea or imprisonment from 1 January 2017.

"This policy has caused economic and social losses of Rp 3.4 trillion and will cause unemployment as many as 66 621 people only in West Java, while in West Kalimantan, the information we get that there are 3,982 ships can not go to sea," he said.