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Fishermen hit BFAR ‘enforcers’

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LAGUNA Lake fishers from Binangonan, Rizal on Monday protested a provision of the amended Fisheries Code of 1998 that supposedly allowed “enforcers” to harass 30 local fishermen and confiscate their equipment.

Pamalakaya said this kind of incident is the result of the scheme of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to turn small fishermen against each other.

“Now small fishers are trained to become law enforcers running after one another. BFAR is making small fishers fight each another instead of uniting them for a utilization and maximization of our marine resources,” Fernando Hicap, Pamalakaya chairperson, said in a statement.

Fishermen from other parts of the archipelago were also trained and armed to enforce the Fisheries Code of 1998 specifically to run after government’s so-called illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

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