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BFAR: No fish shortage during Lent

The fishing ban in Calapan City in Oriental Mindoro was lifted on Friday night after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources certified that marine products in the area are safe for human consumption.

The government will put up cold storage facilities in various fish ports to reduce post-harvest losses, improve the supply of fish in the country and lessen dependence on imports, President Marcos said yesterday.

The Valencia Regular-Seasonal Workers Association composed of employees of Cagdianao Mining Corp., a subsidiary of Nickel Asia Corp. in the province of Dinagat Islands, collaborated with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Department of Labor and Employment to embark on a fish farming project for extra income for employees.

There is something fishy with the sudden interest of BFAR to implement a 1999 order to ban the sale of some imported fish in wet markets and supermarkets. Covered by the ban are salmon head and belly, and pompano.

Up to 35,000 workers in the fishing and canning industry will lose their jobs in the next three months with the implementation of the closed fishing season.

We are in another one of those pointless debates over the importation of food items.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has forged a partnership with the Canned Sardines Association of the Philippines to meet the supply of sardines for canneries during the closed fishing season.

The sardines industry is set to launch a pilot study on resource sharing between commercial and municipal fishers in Zamboanga del Norte to address the sardines issue in a sustainable manner.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has dismissed claims of a shortage in the supply of sardines in Western Mindanao.