Of fishing boats and fishing votes Mauro Gia Samonte The media continue to sizzle with the Julian Felipe Reef controversy, and it has begun to vex me no end. Bobi Tiglao calls the narrative of Chinese maritime militia ships intruding into Philippine territory a hoax. An innocent story in my tabloid, Pwersa, narrates a meeting between the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Philippine military in which the Chinese had clarified the mooring of those ships as taking refuge from bad weather and assured their Philippine counterparts that those vessels would leave when the weather cleared. But a few dozen stayed behind to resume fishing. And this is where Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. made mountains out of molehills, calling the event aggression.