PANGKALPINANG – Bangka Belitung Islands Province has various potentials of abundant fisheries resources. Not only marine fish, but also a variety of freshwater fish.
PT Timah Tbk empowers the Bangka Belitung Endemic Fish Foundation community or often called The Tanggokers to preserve local fish and endemic fish in Bangka Belitung, especially freshwater fish. The Tanggokers is a community that is engaged in the preservation of local fish and fish endemic to Bangka Belitung.
The Tanggokers will conduct research on local and endemic fish of Bangka Belitung, where this research is expected to be a means of learning and education for the wider community about local fish and endemic fish.
The foundation has recorded as many as 89 local fish species and seven endemic fish in Bangka Belitung. Local fish in Bangka Belitung include Channa Lucius, Ompok, Wallago Leeril, Parakyis SP, Brevibora Cheeya, Paltynota and others. While endemic fish such as parosphromenus deissneri, Enchoclaries tapeinocterus, wild betta cloroparynx, wild betta burdigala, wild ta schalleri and others.
The General Chairperson of the Bangka Belitung Endemic Fish Foundation said, Suwarlanda The Tanggokers has a goal to preserve fish in Babylon and provide knowledge to the public about endemic fish and local fish in Bangka Belitung.
The fish that have been found will be tested for genetic species at the University of Bangka Belitung and also in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
"The Tanggokers' goal is to preserve endemic and local fish in Bangka Belitung and we also want to provide knowledge to the public about the fish in Bangka Belitung," he said recently.
He appreciated the support of PT Timah Tbk which has empowered their foundation in the preservation of local fish and endemic fish in Bangka Belitung, which will later have a positive impact on the community.
"I really appreciate the support that is always given by PT Timah Tbk to people who carry out positive activities like this," he said.
"We are extremely pleased with the support of PT Timah Tbk in fish conservation activities in Bangka Belitung, and has made us move forward even more for the whole community," he continued.
He hopes that in the future PT Timah Tbk will continue to support fish conservation activities in Bangka Belitung. (**)
