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The local fishing industry has urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to brush aside what it described as “baseless reports” that the European Commission (EC) is about to issue an illegal fishing “red card” against the Philippines.
FAO 266, which was issued by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in 2020, required all commercial fishing operators to install satellite transponders so that they can be tracked and for them to report their catch.
THE Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) has suspended the Vessel Monitoring Measures (VMM) for commercial fishing vessel, sparking a warning from concerned groups that this puts the Philippines at risk of another yellow-card warning from the European Union. The suspension order was meant to strengthen the…