Fisher folks receive assistance
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS
SOME 600 marginal fisher folks in the city received livelihood assistance from the city government under Mayor Belen T. Fernandez’s livelihood program for sustainable fisheries resources being undertaken by the City Agriculture Office (CAO).
Fernandez said they were provided materials needed to construct fishing gears and equipment, i.e., various type of gill nets; non-motorized bancas (baloto); motorized bancas for fishing; oyster beds; fishcages; and stationary fishing gears like “skyblue”, ”sky lab” and “batikwas”.
Mayor Fernandez has been prioritizing livelihood assistance for marginalized fishermen. Among the programs implemented for them were distribution of non-motorized fishing boats (baloto), bamboo rafts (lamo), floating oyster rafts, fish cages for high value fish species, fry collector nets, and motorized fishing boats with fish finder gadgets.
The Federasyon ng mga Samahan ng mga Maliliit na Mangingisda ng Dagupan City was a recipient of a beach seine project funded by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) while the women sector was provided with trainings and capacity buildings on fish processing in coordination with the different national government agencies like Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Pangasinan State University, DOLE and Department of Trade and Industry.
The association’s production of “Maria Endang” dried fish by housewives of fishermen in Bonuan Gueset and Pantal were assisted by the city and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) while those from Bonuan Boquig, Bonuan Binloc and Mangin were assisted through the city’s Gender and Development program.
The City Agriculture Office said a total of 99 hectares of the city’s river have been cleared of permanent fishing structures and increased the area for the operation of passive gears of marginalized fisher folks.
“We are now ready to give the river back to our small fisher folks after our relentless effort to clean the river along with the amendment of the city’s fishery code,” said Fernandez.
Recipients of the livelihood program were fisher folks from Barangay Carael, Lucao Tokok, Lucao Nibaliw, Pantal, Salapingao, Lomboy, Mamalingling, Calmay, Bonuan Gueset and Pugaro. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO)
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