One by one, fish by fish
Facts & figures
Bitung
The province North-Sulawesi 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 harbor city in the province of North-Sulawesi, in the Sulawesi Sea. Often large cruise ships dock in the harbor 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 little bite for large fish and sharks. Worldwide most of the skipjack tuna ends up in cans. 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.”
Datang is only 41 years old but has been working as a fisherman for 31 years. Despite his demanding job, he’s a real family man: after a long night at sea he loves to come home and be with his family. When we ask him how he likes to eat tuna that he catches himself, his answers explain it all. “I like it the way my wife prepares it,” he says beamingly.
