“Before they arrived, we were free to fish there. The sadder part was that they chose the spots that were known to be hatching grounds,” said fisherman Edwin Rosales. “Now that they have mined those areas, we think the fish have left.” READ:
WE THINK THE FISH HAVE LEFT’ | Fishermen from Bataan province encounter one of the massive vessels anchored on Manila Bay as it extracts sand from the seabed. Local fishers have lately seen an increase in quarrying activities that reduce their catch and destroy known hatching grounds, they said.
In Cavite, a number of large vessels had entered the old fishing grounds, dredging the seafloor and filling their bellies with wet sand, before sailing off and leaving a wrecked marine ecosystem in their wake. According to the Environmental Management Bureau , dredging operations in various areas of the bay currently cover about 13,530 hectares.
Aware of the BFAR rejections, Rosales and his colleagues were thus puzzled by the continued presence of dredgers in the bay. In its EIS, a copy of which was obtained by the Inquirer, VIL Mines also promised to keep off valuable fishing grounds and implement “social development and management plans” to provide alternative sources of livelihood for any displaced fishermen.
“They would just run over our nets like they own the sea; they don’t care at all,” he said. “They don’t even try to avoid them.”
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