Indonesia has proposed six export commodity quality fish to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a London-based independent nonprofit organization that sets the standards for sustainable fishing, in an effort to make local fish more competitive in the global market.
The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry proposed cakalang, bigeye tuna, yellow-fin tuna, spotted crab, red snapper and grouper to undergo MSC's certification.
The ministry's fish processing and marketing director general ,Saut P. Hutagalung, said that obtaining certification was important since tuna and cakalang contributed to around 18 percent of the country's total fish exports throughout 2013 worth USD 4.2 billion.
