Overfishing, destructive fishing, habitat loss, and climate-induced warming ocean have contributed to the population decline. The updated strategy will evaluate the Indonesian government’s conservation efforts for the cardinalfish and its habitat from 2017-2021, and lay out the nationwide strategy for the next five years, the ministry said. Image by Christopel Paino/Mongabay Indonesia. Banggai cardinalfish among anemones and sea urchins. Firdaus Agung, the fisheries ministry’s acting director of marine biodiversity conservation, said in a press release published Sept. “The population is relatively small, that’s why, to protect the sustainability of the species, the ministry has designated the fish as limited protected, its habitat as a regional conservation area, and made it the national mascot for ornamental fish,” M.
The fish has been harvested from the wild and heavily traded among aquarium enthusiasts around the world since the mid-1990s, with most exports going to the United States and Europe. Indonesia’s fisheries ministry said recently it was working on a new action plan to conserve the wild population of the Banggai cardinalfish ( Pterapogon kauderni), a commercial coral fish found only in the waters around the Banggai Archipelago off the eastern coast of the country’s Sulawesi Island. JAKARTA - The Indonesian government is drafting an updated five-year national strategy to protect an endemic reef fish species that’s popular in the global aquarium trade. The cardinalfish’s habitat, the Banggai Archipelago, is considered to be in the heart of the Pacific Coral Triangle, which is home to the highest diversity of corals and reef fishes anywhere on the planet.The updated conservation plan will evaluate the previous five-year plan for the cardinalfish, and use this to inform the national strategy for the next five years, the ministry said.The fish is caught in large numbers - an estimated 500,000 to 900,000 individuals annually - and is exported mainly to the United States and Europe.Indonesia’s fisheries ministry says it is working on a new conservation road map for Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni), a popular species in the aquarium trade globally that is found only in the waters around the country’s Banggai Archipelago.
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