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Saturday, October 21, 2017
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ILOILO City – The City Agriculturist’s Office and City Environment and Natural Resources Office dispersed 10,000 saline-resistant tilapia fingerlings and 4,000 crablets or mud crab juveniles at Zone 4 of the Iloilo River yesterday.
This “stock enhancement program” or dispersal aimed to increase wild stocks at the waterway along Barangay Navais, Mandurriao district and Barangay Fundidor, Molo district.
Zone 4 stretches from Carpenter’s Bridge upstream to the city’s boundary with Oton, Iloilo. It has been declared a productive zone for fishing, said City Agriculturist Romulo Pangantihon.
Meanwhile, Zone 3 from Diversion Bridge to Carpenter’s Bridge is regulated with allowable fishing gears.
Both Zone 2, from Diversion Bridge to Quirino Bridge, and Zone 1, from Quirino Bridge to river mouth, are designated for sports fishing.
The tilapia fingerlings and crablets were provided by Dan Baliao, chief of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center – Aquaculture Department based in Tigbauan, Iloilo.
The dispersal project was also part of the Fish Conservation Week spearheaded by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Regional Office 6.
The initiative was provided under Regulation Ordinance (RO) No. 2009-247 further amending RO No. 2005-228 amending Section 7 of Article III of RO No. 2003-233 known as “the basic fishery ordinance for the regulation, development, protection, conservation and disposition of fisheries and aquatic resources, as well as the related activities in the city and for other related purposes.”
The city government also regularly conducts cleanup of river system to sustain its ecological status for future generation to enjoy. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
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