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About This Report This is the third ‘State of the Fishery’ report on the Indonesian blue swimming crab (BSC, locally referred to as rajungan) fishery covering the years 2019-2021, produced as part of the Indonesia Blue Swimming Crab Initiative of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation) and Walton Family Foundation (WFF) for 2020-2023. It presents a summary of data covering January-December 2021, collected from secondary sources (government statistics and interviews) and provided by the following Indonesia Blue Swimming Crab Consortium partners: Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Marine Change, Starling Resources (SR), and Coral Triangle Center (CTC). It is primarily aimed as a discussion piece for a complex fishery to provide opportunities for learning for donors and implementers. Partners were provided with the full set of indicators, and group feedback sessions were conducted in March 2022 to validate and discuss the initial findings in this report. We would like to thank the partners who shared data and provided generous feedback. The author takes responsibility for all errors herein, and warmly welcomes constructive feedback from all stakeholders to help us enhance the findings of the report.
Dr. Jeremy Prince, Biospherics Inc, Dr. Hawis H. Madduppa, Executive Director of APRI and Stuart J. Green, BGA Ltd reviewing IUU crab, Madura (2019)
