medcom.id, Tangerang: Reclamation project in Tangerang gives hard blow to fishery industry in the Jakarta's satellite city. Not only fishermen, fish collectors also feel the impact of the project.
Fish collectors are people who buy the fish from fishermen. Fishery industry in Tangerang is centered at coastal area of Dadap.
Due to the reclamation, fish trade in the region is rapidly declining. Sarman, 35, a collector specializing on blue swimming crabs, revealed now he could only get 50 kilograms of crabs from fishermen.
"Before the reclamation, there were plenty of crabs. At the time, I could buy four to five quintals of crabs from fishermen," he said at his home in Dadap, Sunday (4/24/2016).
The father of two said previously he had more than 50 workers to clean and skin the crabs. "Now i only get several kilos in a day, I would rather do it myself," continued the man.
"Fish collectors used to have great smell. Now they have fishy smell," mentioned Maryono, 51, a fisherman jokingly.
Another fish collector, Iwan, also has similar fate. While showing the empty 5x7 meter warehouse, where he used to stash his fish, Iwan told the challenge faced by the fish collectors in Dadap's fishermen village.
"Now, everything is rare, be it small crabs, fish, shrimp, and even milkfish," he concluded.
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