One by one, fish by fish
Facts & figures
Bitung
The province North-Celebes takes up about 1% of Indonesia. However, more than half of all national catch is caught here. And it’s good!
Fishing method
The tuna fishermen on Bitung fish with a pole and line. One by one, fish by fish.
Tourist attraction
Bitung is the most important harbour city in the province of North-Celebes, in the Celebes Sea. Often large cruise ships dock in the harbour because of the many surrounding diving areas - an important tourist attraction.
Skipjack tuna
The skipjack tuna is the smallest tuna in the world, but it makes up for it in taste. It swims in large schools of about 50,000 tuna fish around the equator and is both a predatory fish as the favorite bite for large fish and sharks. Worldwide most of the skipjack tuna ends up in tins. But don’t think that it under delivers in taste: the fish meat is firm, round and fatty.
‘My whole family works in the fishery’
"Bije is from a real fishing family and knew how to catch fish when he was ten years old. He started working for this fishery 11 years ago. Bije is now the assistant captain and makes sure that the fishing boat goes to the ideal tuna spot. From there, he joins the other tuna fishers and uses pole and line to catch the tasty skipjack tuna. One by one!''