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+ January 21, 2021 Amid the prevailing health crisis, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 7, through the leadership of its regional director Dr. Allan Poquita, heightens its enforcement of fishery laws.
The bureau s Fishery Resource Protection Group (FRPG), together with the Philippine National Police (PNP) Maritime Group personnel, apprehended a commercial fishing boat operator on Jan. 17 at 1:35 p.m.
The operator and the eight crew members from Victorias City, Negros Occidental were caught encroaching the municipal waters off Madridejos town in Bantayan Island, northern Cebu.
BFAR 7, particularly its Fisheries Management, Regulatory and Enforcement Division (FMRED), has strongly warned the commercial operators that they are prohibited from fishing in the municipal waters.
Published January 21, 2021, 3:21 PM
CEBU CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Central Visayas (Region 7) apprehended a commercial fishing boat operator with eight crew members from Victorias City, Negros Occidental for encroaching in the municipal waters off Madridejos, Bantayan Island, Cebu last Jan. 17.
Josefina Flores, head of the BFAR-7 Fisheries Management, Regulatory, and Enforcement Division (FMRED), said commercial fishing operators are barred from fishing in municipal waters based on Republic Act 10654 or An Act to Prevent, Deter, Eliminate Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing which amended Republic Act 8550 or The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998.
Flores said that BFAR 7 had warned commercial fishing boat operators not to encroach on municipal waters lest they face consequences for violating the fishery laws.