July 06, 2021 LOCAL authorities recently apprehended collectors of banned fishery products worth nearly P13 million in an operation in Barangay Punta Engaño, Lapu-Lapu City.
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) served the two search warrants on June 30, 2021 to two individuals from Sitio Lupa, Barangay Punta Engaño.
The two were charged for violations of the following:
• Section 96 or the ban on coral exploitation and exportation
• Section 102 or fishing or taking of rare, threatened or endangered species that are both stipulated under Republic Act (RA) 10654 or an Act to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.
They were also found violating Section 27 of RA 9147 or The Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act; and Section 2 of Fisheries Administrative Order 158 or the Prohibition on the gathering, taking, collecting, selling, transporting, or possessing for sale of mollusks belonging to the gen
Published December 16, 2020, 9:52 AM
CEBU CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Fisheries Resource Protection Group (FRPG) and the PNP Maritime Group (PMG) intensified sea patrol operations in the Visayan Seas that led to the arrest of three dynamite fishers from Iloilo.
According to the BFAR’s Adjudication Committee that tit he violators were slapped with administrative fines and charged with a criminal case.
In BFAR7– FRPG report, the team narrated that while traversing the seawaters off Bantayan town in Cebu, the team heard an explosion and immediately went on to pursue the suspected fishing boat.
The team flagged down the fishing boat operators reportedly from Gigantes Sur in Carles town, Iloilo and later experts examined the fishes, which they believed were caught using explosives due to its external manifestations, the report said.