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Susi to establish sunken boat museum
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said she had sunk 488 vessels caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.
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Illegal fishing vessels are scuttled by making a hole in the hull and filling it with weights in Riau Islands. (The Jakarta Post/Fadli)
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aritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti plans to build a museum in Pangandaran Beach, West Java, to exhibit the remnants of the foreign fishing vessels that have been sunken by the ministry.
“We will make a museum that collects samples of the vessels we have intercepted in Pangandaran,” Susi said in Bandung as quoted by antara.com, during a talk show and exhibition on sustainable marine life at Graha Sanusi Hardjadinta at Padjajaran University.
At the event, Susi said she had sunk 488 vessels caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.
After being appointed to the office in 2014, Susi began an operation of impounding and blowing up foreign fishing vessels that had regularly encroached into the country’s waters.
Since then, there has been a dramatic decline in unlawful fishing in the waters surrounding the country's 17,500 islands. It has been claimed that the nation's fish stocks have more than doubled under her watch. (gis)
