Jayapura Restores Humboldt Bay Ecosystem with Fish Houses
- 28 Jul 2026 16:51 WIB
- Voice of Indonesia
Key Points
- The Jayapura City Fisheries Agency is expanding the use of fish houses in Humboldt Bay to restore marine habitats and protect coastal ecosystems.
- Fish houses are artificial seabed structures that provide shelter, feeding areas, and breeding grounds for various fish species.
RRI.CO.ID, Jayapura - Pressure on Jayapura’s coastal ecosystems in Papua is being met with a conservation solution based on artificial structures. The Jayapura City Fisheries Agency has released dozens of fish houses into Humboldt Bay as a primary strategy to restore natural habitats for marine species that have declined.
Head of the Jayapura City Fisheries Agency, Matheys Sibi, said Jayapura is a coastal city with significant fisheries and marine potential, so the preservation of marine ecosystems must be maintained sustainably. "For that reason, the fish-house program is one of our efforts to protect the sustainability of the marine ecosystem," he said in Jayapura on Monday, 28 July 2026.
Fish houses are hollow artificial structures placed on the seabed, often called fish apartments or fish aggregating devices (FADs), that serve as shelter, residence, and breeding grounds for fish.
Matheys said the program is also expected to open new economic opportunities for coastal communities. "These fish houses function as shelter, feeding, and breeding sites for various fish species, and are expected to help restore the balance of the local marine ecosystem," he said, as quoted by Antara.
He added that the office will gradually deploy fish houses to villages across Jayapura City.
"On Saturday (25 July 2026), we symbolically released 27 fish houses in the waters of Tahima Soroma Village, known as Kayo Pulau. That area has potential to be developed into an underwater tourism and fishing site that can be managed sustainably by the village administration together with the community," he said.
He noted that fish houses are beneficial not only environmentally but also in potentially improving community welfare through marine tourism and fishing activities.
"Therefore, we continue to encourage the public to help maintain the fish houses so they function optimally. In this way, their benefits can be felt in the long term, both for ecosystem preservation and for improving residents’ economic conditions," he said. ***
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