Crab stories brought me to found the another layers of un-recorded economic strength that Papua has. The box I sent is covered by another 28 big boxes of streoform containing average 30 Kg of fresh mangrove crabs. 'Its just arrive this morning and are transported out every days by air shipping" Said the officer in the cargo gates of Manokwari Airport. He then added that "this now reduced since the government declared to say no for the female crabs. Now only male that exported out. It used to be minimum 40 boxes were exported". This emphasized what my friend in Jakarta has reminded me and the experienced i had with quarantine inspection before it is allowed to loaded. The prices I bought is about Rp. 38K per kg for red mangrove crabs while I guess they may bought with only 20K or 25K per kg in Bintuni bays. Looking at the big boxes with tonnes of crabs transported out I was then amazed how this big dollar resources from Papua are taken out without clear controls and so silly since no data shows how much crabs are contributing to GDP of the region or province. In rough we could calculates: if i assumed they take 20 days of regular exports in a month with average 30 boxes containing 30 kg of crabs each then there are 18,000 kg or about 18 Ton of mangrove crabs are exported out every days. If this is consistent in a year there are about more that 200 tonnes of crabs been transporting out of West Papua.
Crabs in a Box that ready to be exportedLegally there is no straight regulation of fishery products compare to mining or timbers that quite complicates. We just needs to organize the permission and letter known as SIUP at Investment Body with confirmation from Marine and Fishery Department with few amount of non taxes payment to the states. At the airport we will have to secure the quarantine checks to make sure we are exported the species or specific aspect not forbidden by the law. As described bellow that for crabs the inspection are applied to make sure that all the boxes are only containing male crabs. I then learned from okezone.com article 14th April 2016 that the Government argue there would a big implication of crabs scarcity by taking big numbers of female crabs particularly with eggs in it stomach. The was also a reason i learned from detik.com article Jan 19 2015 that there values of crabs export were falling down since the buyers in china and taiwan then breeding the eggs and growing bigger for their internal consumption.
Female crabs, recognize by the form of its sex
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Financially the region doesn't aware or may be the don't want to aware about the million dollars of crabs investment been happening in their region. Once the crabs arrive in Jakarta the prices could reach Rp120K per kg of which in a month there are about USD-200K or in a year could reach 1 million USD transaction are going on. Having a regulation and clear arrangement is crucial to help government control the revenue and stocks in the wild. This will also helps government to setup the crab farming for the small groups of Papuan who can engage to gets access to big benefits of their crabs. With large mangrove covers, clean airs, steady ecosystem and facts that community are depending much on their natural resources should be another layers of economic poles in the island to increase income and level of community wealth.
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