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Download (350Kb) History Behind the Closed Sardine Fishing in the Zamboanga Peninsula Item Type article Authors Baylosis, Roberto A. DOI 10.31398/tpjf/25.2.20181019 Download date 01/10/2021 02:14:11 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/40953 | A ISSN: 0048 - 377X (Print) Philippine copyright © 2018 Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources National Fisheries Research and Development Institute Published by Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources National Fisheries Research and Development Institute All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of materials in this information product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the sources is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited. Please address all communication to: Managing Editor, TPJF 6/F National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Corporate 101 Building, Mother Ignacia Avenue, South Triangle, Quezon City, Philippines, 1103 Tel. No.: (+632) 376-1178 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.nfrdi.da.gov.ph/tpjf/ Design and Layout: J.K. Dionisio B | The Philippine Journal of Fisheries The Philippine Journal of Fisheries 25(2): 75-76 July-December 2018 DOI: 10.31398/tpjf/25.2.20181019 Commentary Article History Behind the Closed Sardine Fishing in the Zamboanga Peninsula Roberto A. Baylosis1 1Executive Vice-President, SOPHIL Fishing Association, Inc., Torre de la Buenavista, Buenavista Street, Zamboanga City Communicated by Ephrime B. Metillo*, Editorial Board Member, The Philippine Journal of Fisheries E-mail address: [email protected]* irst of all, I would like to share some personal employer, which eventually led to a meeting with background of my involvement with this noble Mr. Francisco Cadiz Jr. and the late Mr. Abdul Gapor advocacy of sardine fishery conservation in Abdua, Director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Fthe Zamboanga Peninsula. I have been with the Resources (BFAR) Region IX that time, and discussed commercial fishery sector for about 46 years to date, how to possibly prevent the collapse of the sardine spent 28 years in the tuna fishing sector, started as fishery stock in Eastern Sulu Sea. Mr. Abdua assigned a fisherman onboard, rose from the ranks, and was two enumerators in the fish port/landing that caters eventually assigned in land-based functions. Presently, for the fishing boats, a facility that is also owned and I am connected with the SOPHIL Fishing Association, operated by the company, which is supervised by our Inc. in Zamboanga City, for about 18 years already. employer. However, the budget for the said sardine The author became a fisherman because catch monitoring task was not sustained for long. while on a summer vacation as a working college My advocacy to protect the sardine stock student then, an opportunity for a summer job in 1972 was heard by the Zamboanga City Council which for students on vacation was made available on board promulgated City Resolution no. 1199. I have a medium class fishing boat from a Manila-based tuna consulted the matter with former BFAR Director and fishing outfit, EPHIROL Fishing Enterprises, Inc. DA Undersecretary Asis Perez and he named me as a (EFEI) with office at Intramuros, Manila. EFEI has just prime mover during a lunch break in a gathering last opened and recruited fishermen in Sarangani Province August 17, 2017, as per letter attached addressed to the through a business branch outfit unit. Perhaps the two city councilors, Hon. Kim Elago and Hon. Asbi management was satisfied with my performance as I Edding. received a series of rank promotions and eventually As a backgrounder, the sardine fishing was transferred to handle land-based functions. The companies based in Zamboanga City are mostly undersigned have served the Tuna Fishing Sector for members of an association named the Southern about 28 years, on board along with Japanese master Philippines Deep Sea Fishing Association, Inc., fishermen, Yoshibumi Kihara and Osamu Taniguchi presently renamed as, per corrected SEC Registration, for squid fishing, tuna long line, shrimps trawl, tuna as SOPHIL Fishing Association, Inc. There were purse, dog sharks fishing, and skipjack tuna of the 16 member fishing companies at the start which Katsubushi Processing Plant, a branch processing increased to 20. The president then was my employer, plant of EFEI. and it was a big opportunity to be able to relay and The sardine closed fishing advocacy started convince the members during association meetings around 2002-2003, while I was connected with a sardine for a closed fishing season for proper management and fishing company engaged in sardine canning and sustainability of the resources referring to Section 9 of purse seine fishing for sardines based in Zamboanga the RA 8550. This is to prevent a similar occurrence City. Engr. Rogelio De Sosa, a co-employee, discussed with the collapse of the California sardines. In what he viewed on television regarding the sardine 2005 with handful members who consented to the collapse in California. Aware of the collapse of other advocacy, I took the initiative to inquire former co- sardines fishery stocks of other countries several years employee Mr. Samuel Resma, who was in constant back, the undersigned felt alarmed that the collapse of contact with me and was then in the United States the California sardines could happen in Zamboanga. on a Fulbright scholarship study on fishery stock Together with a co-employee, we approached our assessment. Taking the advice of Samuel, I was able | 75 The Philippine Journal of Fisheries 25(2): 75-76 to meet a certain Dr. Stanley Swerdloff, the fishery Mudjekeewis D. Santos who were our partners in adviser of the Growth Equity in Mindanao (GEM) the Sulu-Sulawesi Large Marine Ecosystem project. based in Davao City. Several meetings happened Mr. Barut and Dr. Santos were our resource persons with Dr. Swerdloff especially during his trips to on the reproductive biology of sardines. This closed Tawi Tawi passing by Zamboanga to inspect and fishing advocacy was also raised and discussed in supervise a GEM-sponsored project in Bongao. Dr. the Region IX Regional Development Council and Stanley Swerdloff was very helpful in suggesting MEDCo, presently MinDA; the latter supported for how to possibly adopt the conservation measure the implementation of the proposal. that I advocated. The concepts of upwelling and With my personal pleading during fishery- plankton were shared by Dr. Swerdloff. Meetings were related gatherings and the involvement of various carried out to discuss submission of fishing activity government concerned agencies, the Department and harvest records which was attended by fishing of Agriculture-Department of Interior and Local company representatives, Dr. Swerdloff, myself, and Government Joint Administrative Order No. 1 (DA/ Mr. Samuel Resma, who has already returned in the DILG JAO No. 1) was passed to implement the country after the two-year study in the United States sardine closed fishing for three months starting Nov and became connected with Mindanao Development 15, 2011. The SOPHIL Fishing operators implemented Authority (MinDA) formerly Mindanao Economic DA/DILG JAO No. 1 following the period that was Development Council (MEDCo). Several meetings originally proposed that isww December 1 to March lead to the crafting of the sardine management plan 1 the following year. The implementation was carried by Dr. Stanley Swerdloff that he himself submitted the out with the intervention support of the Industrial draft to the BFAR Central Office. While in the process Group of Zamboanga (IGZI) President Engr. George of gathering data for the sardine management plan, Ledesma. IGZI is an organization of allied industries Mr. Edgar Lim, who has been with the processing with some sardine canning factory members. sector since 1985, also initiated actions to convince the After three years of practice per DA/DILG fishing operators supplying their raw materials and JAO No. 1, Mr. Edgar Lim and I became members of the some cannery operators/managers for the observation NFARMC, and the opportunity was our very chance and practice of the sardine closed fishing. to propose for the continued closed fishing. During Realizing the urgency of the matter, we did the NFARMC regular meeting on September 2014, the not wait for the response from the BFAR Central NFARMC recommended for the passage of the Bureau Office. We raised the sardine stock concern at the Administrative Circular No. 255 (BAC 255) thereafter National Fishery and Aquatic Resource Management establishing the seasonal fishing closure for sardine Council (NFARMC). The opportunity came when conservation. Around this time more scientific studies I was invited as an observer in one of the NFARMC funded by the Department of Science and Technology meetings sometime in 2009. I then raised the (DOST) have been conducted by Philippine academic advocacy and provided the NFARMC a copy of the institutions: University of the Philippines (UP) draft management plan crafted by Dr. Swerdloff. The Marine Science Institute, UP Visayas, UP Los Baños, reaction of the vice chairperson then was not favorable Mindanao State University (MSU) Iligan Institute of for the closed fishing period proposed, mentioning Technology, MSU Naawan, and Jose Rizal Memorial that the proposed period was self-serving and lacking State University. BFAR also initiated oceanographic science-based research and studies. In that meeting, validation surveys on sardine larvae distribution the former BFAR IX Regional Director, who was also and abundance in the Sulu Archipelago and the the head of Region IX National Stock Assessment Zamboanga Peninsula sectors of Sulu Sea. Studies Program, was also present. There were no reactions carried out in Zamboanga Peninsula waters were from both former Undersecretary Perez and the on physical oceanography of the coastal upwelling, BFAR IX NSAP head and Regional Director Ahadulla plankton, sardine biology, and socioeconomic aspects.
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