Conservation advocates and fisherfolk groups are calling for transparency amid reported efforts by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to introduce amendments to the Philippine Fisheries Code.
Conservation advocates and fisherfolk groups are calling for transparency amid reported efforts by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to introduce amendments to the Philippine Fisheries Code.sent by fisherfolk leaders from different parts of the country and Oceana to Department of Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban, Undersecretary for Fisheries Drusila Bayate, and BFAR Director Atty.
According to Oceana’s Acting Vice President and Legal and Policy Director Atty. Rose Liza Eisma Osorio, BFAR did not even undertake any review to assess the effectiveness, relevance, and impact of existing provisions of the Amended Fisheries Code to justify the proposed amendments. Mechanisms such as the Fisheries Management Area system are already in place under the existing RA 10654 to implement science-based policies to sustainably manage the country’s fisheries in a decentralized and transparent governance that needs to be fully implemented. The groups said the proposed changes contradict these overarching goals of the law.
Martha Cardano, a fisherfolk from Northern Samar who attended the consultation meeting recounted that she was not allowed to say her piece. She was particularly alarmed because the participants of the consultation meeting that includes commercial fishers repeatedly argue that small fisherfolk have no capacity to fish sufficiently to increase the country’s capture fisheries production.
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