Based on Wiki, Indonesia is an archipelago with a coastline of about 81,000 km, and as such has a vast potential for aquaculture with high level of biological diversity. The estimated potential area for aquaculture is 7,231,039 ha consisting of 3,775,539 ha of mariculture (52.21 percent) (on 2004), 1,225,000 ha of brackish water aquaculture (16.94 percent) (on 2003), and 2,230,500 ha of freshwater aquaculture (30.85 percent). The existing area used for marine, brackish water and freshwater aquaculture is only about 0.03 percent, 39.25 percent and 11.22 percent of the potential area, respectively.

Aquaculture in Indonesia is practiced in fresh, brackish and marine water using a variety of species, production facilities and methods. Freshwater aquaculture began to develop in the late 1970s when there was a significant increase in production from freshwater aquaculture as a result of the introduction of new farming technologies which contributed to the availability of hatchery-produced seed and the development of compound feed.

The most common aquaculture species are common carp (Cyprinus carpio), catfish (Clarias spp., Pangasius spp.) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus ). In 1978, brackish water pond areas increased significantly with the successful development of the eyestalk ablation technique and the rapid growth of shrimp hatcheries. In South Sumatra and Lampung Provinces brackish water pond areas were expanded by the private sector to develop large-scale pond culture using the Nucleus Estate System. Penaeid shrimps and milkfish (Chanos chanos) are the common commodities. Mariculture has only developed in the last ten years, and is dominated by the grouper species such as humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis) and brown-marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus ) as well as seaweeds (Eucheuma spp. and Gracilaria spp.).

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