Billfish Fisheries In Indonesia Prepared by MAHISWARA BUDI ISKANDAR, PS. RESEARCH CENTER FOR CAPTURE FISHERIES INDONESIA

Indonesian billfish fisheries : close related to longline fishery billfish as a part of by-catch poorly recorded, agregated in to single categories the catches of billfish from Indonesia was about 400,000 T in 2007 since 2003 some landing places has been breaking down by species of billfish

Data collecting system National Fisheries Data Collection System for marine fisheries established by Dr. T. Yamamoto in 1978 The primary outcomes: 1)Nation-wide statistics on annual production for all species groups fished, both at the industrial and artisanal levels of fishing activity 2)Nation-wide annual inventories of the number of fishing units (households, companies, operators) and number, size, and gear-type of fishing vessels involved in the fishing activities at both levels in all provinces.

Annual Report: “Statistics of Capture Fishery Indonesia” Directorate General of Capture Fisheries Provincial Fisheries Offices District Fisheries Offices Subdistrict Fisheries Extension Offices Industrial Ports Major Landing Place (Other) Fishing Villages Quarterly reports (LL-1,LL-2, LL-3, etc forms) Monthly reports (EL-1, El-2, El-3, etc forms) Fishing Company monthly reports (SL-3 forms) Auction place monthly reports (SL-3 forms) Weekly surveys (SL-4, SL-5 forms) Quarterly surveys (SL-6 forms) Annual census of fishing households (SL-1, SL-2, KL forms) Major Landing Places

The new data collecting system for tuna longline started in 2002 introduced of the new Catch Monitoring Program tuna fisheries in Jakarta, Benoa and Cilacap monitoring the information on the composition of the tuna catch was obtained by the enumerator at the processing plant enumerators would aggregate the data on individual fish provided by processing plant by species and export status, recording subtotals of weight and number of pieces since 2003 activity of tuna fisheries catch monitoring program was extended to cover bycatch of tuna longline enumerator were recorded data species, number, weight and length of bycatch especially for billfish

To support the marine fisheries management and also being recognized that the country has a huge coverage of fishing areas, the government divide the area into 11 fisheries management area

fish landing place is base of recording catch and effort data fish landing places in Indonesia are classified into three categories, based on their capacity and facilities available.

Billfish production and catch monitoring Billfish production from Indian Ocean Waters of Indonesia

Billfish landed in Cilacap Fishing Port Billfish landed in Pelabuhanratu Fishing Port

Number of fish sampled by species in Benoa Number of fish sampled by species in Jakarta

Black marlin sampled in Benoa Swordfish sampled in BenoaSworfish sampled in Jakarta Blue marlin sampled in Benoa

Billfish sampled in Jakarta Sailfish sampled in Jakarta

Sailfish sampled in Benoa Swordfish sampled in Benoa

Blue marlin sampled in Benoa Black marlin sampled in Benoa

Indonesia, aware of the importance of obtaining precise catch estimates for the assessment and management of billfish stocks, due to provide complete estimates of catches, new data collection systems introduced since 2002 Undertake trial to implement new system to landing places Training of data recording procedure for port sampler is needed to provide accurate data incl. to eliminate mis-indentification of billfish

Thank you for your attention