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Indonesia is ASEAN’s No. 1 tuna exporter Indonesia is ASEAN’s No. 1 tuna exporter

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By SeafoodSource staff
01 June, 2012 - Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs stated that Indonesia is considered the largest tuna exporter in ASEAN.

“The export volume reaches 141,774 tons. If liquidated, [the value] will reach USD 449 million per year,” said Director General of Fisheries Processing and Marketing of the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Saut P Hutagalung, in Yogyakarta, on Thursday.

Saut said Indonesia and other ASEAN nations are the world’s largest tuna suppliers with the production of 26.2 percent of the world’s tuna production of 1.7 million tons.

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