Ornamental fish are getting more beautiful during the pandemic: https://blulpmukp.id/kabar-kita/ikan-hias-makin-cantik-di-masa-pandemi/1 December 2021
Cultivation business is often synonymous with consumption fish. However, the activity of collecting broodstock of ornamental fish that will be bred so that the offspring can be taken for sale is also cultivation. Businesses that thrive, usually because of the encouragement of this hobby, are called aquaculture.

"At the beginning of the ornamental fish pandemic, there was a boom, prices went up because there was a lot of demand," admits Amran Efendi (46). He wanted to emphasize that the ornamental fish market was not significantly disrupted, even though there was a global pandemic that had an impact on various fields. Demand that remains high is more because the ornamental fish market is a hobbyist who is relatively well established economically.

RI Want to Be World's Leading Manufacturer of Ornamental Fish 2019, http://industri.bisnis.com/14 November 2016
Head of Research and Development of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries suggests three things to make Indonesia as a producer of ornamental fish number one in the world, know and master the ornamental fish trade internationally, to understand the constellation internal (data, licensing, partnerships), and strategy (roadmap, business plan, action plan).

Some of the steps required. First, speed up the preparation of the roadmap and the national action plan (NAP) to RI as a manufacturer of Ornamental Fish world number one.

Based on data from UN Comtrade trade of ornamental fish, ornamental fish production, Indonesia continues to increase in the range of 2009-2013 which put Indonesia as ornamental fish producer ranked fourth in the world. Even in the last two decades, Indonesia is an important exporter of ornamental fish trade world.

Indonesian ornamental fish biodiversity is very high. Indonesia has recorded 400 species of freshwater fish and 650 species of sea water ornamental fish and many species of fish that have not been identified.