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Lawyer Gloria Estenzo Ramos, Oceana Vice President, said that the existing Fisheries Code implements the constitutional provision guaranteeing the preferential right of artisanal fisherfolk in municipal water by prohibiting commercial fishing operations within the 15-kilometer from the shoreline.
Garcia, a Cebu congressman, authored and filed House Bill (HB) No.7853, which proposes to allow commercial fishing activities in the part of municipal waters, from 10.1 to 15 kilometers from the shoreline as an exception.
It also seeks to allow commercial fishing for coastal cities and municipalities with less than 10 kilometers of municipal waters.
“The plan to amend the Fisheries Code provision is alarming. Our ocean has not even recovered or has not been rehabilitated from overfishing and here they are wanting commercial fishing inside the municipal water. We will not allow it and we will take action to ensure that all our efforts on fisheries management w