2009 Annual Reports - Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

Carol Romero, fishery technician of PeñablancaLGU, is ecstatic with the harvest, Marlo Pagulayanat foreground. Photo taken during the harvest fieldday last November 20, 2009.natural food in his pond, as manifested by greenishcolor of the pond. Pond fertility, which is necessaryfor natural food (algae) to grow, is maintained byplacing seven bags chicken manure in his irrigationfedfishpond.Total feed consumption for this demo was onlyCategory 2Appropriate & Comprehensive Regulations & StandardsDeveloped, Implemented & MonitoredMonitoring, Control and SurveillanceCampaign against poachersANNUAL REPORT 200960 bags – which is much lower than current rule ofthumb of 10 to 8 bags per thousand pieces fingerlingsin fishpond culture.Total expenditure is only 52,205 pesos.Rice – ulangNavarro’s findings is shared by Marlo Pagulayan, ofPeñablanca, Cagayan, also a BFAR RO2 rice-fish (ulang)techno-demo cooperator from Pagulayan observes thatsoil fertility is enhanced and maintained by drainingpond water into his rice farm. The cooperator said thathe was able to harvest 146 cavans (fresh) in 0.9 hectarerice land using hybrid variety, whereas before he canhardly get 120 for a whole hectare using inbred.Although, Pagulayan’s harvest from his fishpondwas below target due to high mortality incurred duringtransport of post larvae (ulang seed stocks), income isstill better compared to pure rice farming. This is dueto high market price and low feed expenses for ulang.Production cost was lessened by feeding his ulangstocks with surplus vegetables and fruits, gratedcoconut and banana.Pursuant to Sec. 87 of Republic Act 8550which partly reads as “It shall be unlawful for anyforeign person, corporation or entity to fish oroperate any fishing vessel in Philippine waters” andits implementing guidelines and procedures, FisheriesAdministrative Order 200, BFAR RO2 deployed threepatrol boats (MCS 3001,3005, &3006) for fishery lawenforcement operations in Philippine territorial waterswithin region 02.The operations had netted 2 Taiwanese fishingvessels suspected to be illegally operating in Philippineterritorial waters.The foreign vessels and the incident reports are asfollows:Tz Fu Tien (BJ 4771)This vessel, manned by two Taiwanese identifiedas Horng Shenq Fwu (Boat Captain) and Lii Jyi Long(engineer), and ten Indonesian crew-members namedSusanto, Saidin, Riyanto, Sutikno, Iswanto, MohamadYellow-fin tuna from BJ 4771, and itsradio bouys deployed at the time ofapprehension.Hidayat, Ari Hermanto, Tahyanur, Hasanudin andHadi Warno was apprehended at approximately 4.66kilometers Maloncon Island in Sta. Ana, Cagayan onMay 12 by MCS 3001.The commander of the patrol boat, LTJG DinoGarcia reported that they were on routine patrolmission when they spotted through radar the presenceof the foreign vessel. Garcia said that the crew of thevessel were then busy hauling tuna though a long linefishing gear at the time of apprehension.Upon verification, Garcia said that the foreignfishers presented papers indicating that their vessel,named TZ Fu Tien, is registered in Taiwan. While thecrew were able to present Certificate of Accreditation17