The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Bali Island very hard since the island relies so heavily on tourism. The island has been almost empty of visitors since March, and thousands of Balinese struggle to make ends meet. The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries are providing a…
This year we celebrate World Oceans Day with our community partners in North Bali and Banggai Island. Like many millions of other people around the world, the North Bali aquarium fishers, have been severely impacted by the pandemic. Because there have been no orders from the buyers to catch the fish, and almost no international flights coming…
It has been three months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, also reaching remote communities in the areas where we work. It has affected our community partners in different ways. Since late March 2020, the marine aquarium fishers in Les village have had less orders, and therefore significantly less income, and there have been almost…
We are very pleased to know that our reef restoration program continues receiving technical support from various institutions. In September 2019, M. Abrar, a coral scientist from Research Centre for Oceanography – the Indonesian Institute of Science, and Prof. Dr. Bert Hoeksema from the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leyden visited and dived at the sites. M Abrar…
Fishers who catch yellowfin tuna with handlines in the Banda Sea look for birds and dolphins as signs of the presence of tuna. Although the handline fisheries have little impact on interactions with Endangered, Threatened, or Protected (ETP) species, there is evidence that some seabirds are being caught on the handlines. Examples of this were…
We started our internship program in 2016, with our aquaculture of marine reef fish and reef restoration in the LINI Aquaculture and Training Centre (LATC), at Les village in North Bali. The program is dedicated to offering Indonesian fresh graduates from fisheries, marine science, aquaculture backgrounds the chance to experience working on a wide range…