ILOILO CITY -- Over 30 commercial fishing boats have been charged by the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force from January until October 2017 for violating the Revised Fisheries Law.
In an interview Tuesday, provincial administrator Raul Banias, supervising the task force, said most of those charged were big commercial fishing boats like “super hulbot" and those engaged in “palupad” or trawl fishing, dynamite fishing, among others.
He said these commercial fishing boats mostly come from Negros Island and Cebu while local fisherfolks doing dynamite fishing were from the towns of Carles, Estancia, Concepcion and Banate in the province of Iloilo.
Banias said there has been resurgence of dynamite fishing among local fisherfolks in the northern part of the province.
“The easiest and most effective way of catching fish is (through an) illegal way,” he said.
But definitely, Banias said the number of violations has decreased compared to the same period last year.
He attributed the accomplishment to the relentless campaign of the provincial government and the local government units against illegal fishers and enforcement of the provincial and municipal ordinances against illegal fishing.
Recently, Banias said the Bantay Dagat Task Force nabbed 16 fishermen onboard F/V Mark Cris-RA from Barangay Bara, Roxas City for using trawl, an unregistered active gear, within the municipal waters of Concepcion town in violation of the revised Fisheries Code of the Philippines. (PNA)
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