Fujian leads seafood trade with Indonesia

FUZHOU - Lin Ming, 48, developed the habit of studying the map of Indonesia ever since he first set foot in the sprawling archipelago 20 years ago.

It is a treasure map for him. In a lush village in suburban Semarang, the capital and largest city of Indonesia's Central Java province, his company's freshwater prawn farm, which covers an area of 333 hectares, produces over 35,000 metric tons of prawns per year.

The farm is located in Terboyo industrial park, which also harbors the company's seafood processing plant that boasts cold storage of 5,000 tons and can process 200 tons of fish and prawns each day. About half of its products processed in Indonesia are shipped to China.