By: Vincent Chalias
It’s been eight months since the export of corals from Indonesia has stopped – eight months of heavy confusion, misinformation, and general disarray, but what is it all about, and what’s going on? Actually this whole mess is coming from a misinformed Indonesian fishery minister that doesn’t like the idea of having corals into an aquarium, especially if they are collected from already under pressure reefs systems.
因此，在去年5月，她决定通过拒绝签发保健证明，该证书要求在国内和出口出口。就像这会改变有关礁石情况的任何事情……
经过夏天的谈判，并且很难与珊瑚出口商进行任何对话，包括其他部委和政府机构在内的调解委员会要求她撤回五月的信。但是到目前为止，还没有发布任何健康证书，没有任何澄清，因此珊瑚的出口仍然被卡住。而且情况仍然处于僵局，对话很少，进步更少，因为野生珊瑚和文化的珊瑚兴趣都被谈判为一个。
15 years ago, when cultured corals were authorized, part of the deal, was that wild corals exporters had to start mariculture in order to keep their wild coral exporting licenses, and then any wild coral export facility was also participating in reef restoration efforts as part of the guidelines for mariculture. The target of the government was to shut down the wild coral trade by 2021 and get it all replaced by cultured corals.
But few years down the line these regulations got lost in translation and abandoned. One of the consequences of these poor decisions is the situation we are locked in right now.
在谈判缺乏进展之后，对解决方案的希望很小。而且，由于珊瑚农民受到这种情况的影响，因为他们在海底拥有数百万美元的投资座位。仍然需要日常维护的投资。不仅如此，珊瑚种植比野生收藏更具渔民的渔民，因此危及的是更多。
A New Organization
一些早期的农民决定联合起来，并团结起来重建珊瑚农民协会。该协会称为‘APKHN’which stands forArchipelago Ornamental Coral Farmers Associationand is composed so far of 15 members including all the precursors of Indonesian coral mariculture, that started this industry 18 years ago.
根据他们的记录，制作计划，多年的经验，如果他们在获得野生珊瑚许可之前开始培养珊瑚，他们愿意以相互方式一起工作的意愿等。成员。
A few months ago they started approaching all involved government agencies, including the fisheries department. And all what we can say, is that they are starting to get a positive feedback from them. The road is still long, but a process has started, and we can all hope that an end to the ban, at least for cultured corals in the following months will happen, together with a change in the Indonesian Coral industry…
20 years ago we saved the Indonesian Coral industry by implementing mariculture and developing what became a multi million dollar industry. Unfortunately, by the time has come, that we all step up again, and save what can be saved. As this industry still has a lot to develop and progress to do.
关闭一个行业那t still has so much potential would be a disgrace. And we don’t think the Indonesian government can afford to miss out on this opportunity. We will keep you updated in the following months on what is happening with this particular situation.
By: Vincent Chalias
