Indonesian Aquaculture Production

Aquaculture Area: In Indonesia the extent of areas with aquaculture potential is around 11.81 million hectares, consisting of 2.22 million hectares with potential for freshwater aquaculture, 1.22 million hectares with potential for brackishwater aquaculture and 8.36 million hectares with marine culture potential. Currently, exploitation of this potential has only reached 10.14 % for freshwater aquaculture, 36.99 % for brackishwater aquaculture and 1.01 % for marine culture.
Aquaculture fisheries production: The total national aquaculture production in 2007 was 3.19 million MT. Which is still low if derided the potential area which is available for aquaculture. Therefore there is still great
potential for growth in terms of area.
The bigger aquaculture productions in 2006 were seaweed (1.73 million MT), second is shrimp (0.36 million MT), Common carp (0.264 million MT), Milk fish (0.263 million MT), nile tilapia (0.207 million MT), Java barb (0.092 million MT), Cat fishes (0.037 million MT), Giant Gouramy (0.036 million MT) and Shells (0.016 million MT).
The main producing area are East Nusa Tenggara Province for marine culture (504,709 MT), South Sulawesi Province for brackishwater (297,677 MT) and West Java Province for freshwater production (288,696 MT). The bigger number of fish farmer in marine culture is South Sulawesi Province (84,100 persons), while in brackishwater farmer is South Sulawesi Province (136,108 persons) and in freshwater farmer is West Java Province (624,711 persons).