We hosted an event coinciding with World Ocean Day and Coral Triangle Day. The event was to raise awareness to elementary school children about the things they can do to help keep the oceans clean. The event featured marine life coloring contests, group games and an activity to help clean up the fish landing site. Over 200 elementary school students participated in the event

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We have a very strong partnership with Wageningen University and Indonesia Institute of Agriculture to work under their program called BESTuna. The program is designed to cover extensive research concerning tuna fisheries in Indonesia.

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Yayasan Widya Asih is home and shelter to children coming from poor families throughout Bali. It is where they can seek for better quality life and education. It has seven orphanages scattered in Singaraja, Karangasem, Bangli, Negara and Denpasar districts. Commonly each accommodates between twenty to fifty children. For daily drinking water, they rely on water from the well and government water company, PDAM. Tthey cook it and drink. For this amount of children, cooking the water consumes a lot of energy and fuel until they finally can drink it. Furthermore, what they can drink is very limited.

We installed a UV water filter in the orphanage. Orphanage staff has been trained to change the filter and check for proper water quality. The people there are amazed at the ease they can now access clean drinking water without the trouble of boiling it first and then letting it cool down.

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Our strategy is not just telling the fishermen that they must engage sustainable practices at once but, by introducing them to the idea and following up by teaching them step by step actions regarding sustainability.  Our team travels from one village to the next to meet with the local fishermen and teach the the fundamentals of fisheries sustainability and what will be the future if we do not act now.

Fishing and Living always cares about the sustainability of the fishermen and the fish.  By providing good information we strongly believe that the artisanal and small-scale fishermen will be spearheading the effort of fisheries sustainability in Indonesia.

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Chen Woo Company, a close partner to the Fishing and Living Program, visited the office to discuss the joint collaboration in data collection and observer program.

The full activity of the data collection and sustainability program is already established in Bone of South Sulawesi with support from Chen Woo.  In 2013, we hope that we will implement Fair Trade standard in the area to improve the livelihood of the small scale and artisanal fishermen.

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We went to Maluku (Mollucas) and conducted a site survey to assess the landing activity for the Fishing and Living tuna data collection program. The team met with the village chief,  also a seasoned fisherman, to discuss sustainability and implementation of the data collection program.

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In December 2012, The Fishing and Living program with the support from WWF USA had a 3 day workshop with Richard Banks for evaluation and restructuring of the Fisheries Improvement Plan.  The result will be an updated FIP Management Plan for handline fisheries in Indonesia.  The full implementation of the revised plan will be conducted in 2013.

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With the support from the local Government Fisheries Services and local fish producers, we found good information in regard to the fisheries activities within the province.  In 2013 we will be implementing Data Collection and Observer Program with the support of USAID IMACS Project.

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