Short Body Mackerel (Rastrelliger Brachysoma) in the Java Sea, Indonesia

Between 1961 and 2016, the average annual increase in global food fish consumption (3.2 percent) outpaced population growth (1.6 percent). In per capita terms, food fish consumption grew from 9.0 kg in 1961 to 20.2 kg in 2015, at an average rate of about 1.5 percent per year [1]. Indonesia has a very large potential of fish biological resources. Biological resources according to the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 5 of 1994 include genetic resources, organisms or parts thereof, populations or biotic components of other ecosystems with benefits or value that are tangible or potential for humanity.