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Tuna Sector Contributes USD 76 Million To Baliff

26 January 2004 Indonesia

Fishery sector contributed USD 96.1 million to the Denpasar’s non-oil revenue in the fiscal year of 2003, an increase of five percent compared with that in 2002, which only stood at USD 92 million.

The fresh-frozen tuna posed the biggest revenue, with a booking of USD 76 million from its export to Japan and the United States, head of the local trade and industry, Ketut Gde Mahendra said on Sunday.

The second contribution came to the seafish with USD 13 million or an increase of about 33 percent compared with 2002`s export which only reached USD 9.5 million, he added.