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Although the Philippines has long been recognized as the world’s center of marine biodiversity, policies to protect marine life in the Philippine seas from illegal fishing and other human activities are not strictly enforced.
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.