De Venecia says forefathers started bangus industry
TAKING a break from his campaign sorties, Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. participated in the 2007 Bangus Festival on Tuesday and found himself warmly welcomed by revelers.
De Venecia and his team shook hands with the crowd to also pay tribute to Dagupan’s number one product, bangus, followed by campaigners cheering JAB (short for Joe, mayoralty candidate Al Fernandez and his running-mate for vice mayor Belen Fernandez).
Accompanied by former Immigration Commissioner Al Fernandez and former Councilor Belen Fernandez and members of their team, De Venecia said he was there to join the feast as a Dagupeño and a concerned citizen who has a lot at stake in the bangus industry.
The bangus, he recalled, is grown in Dagupan’s brackish water that is now more than 200 years old, adding that his ancestors were among the pioneers of the city’s bangus industry.
“With their income from the fishponds, my forefather sent my grandfather to school and in turn my grandfather sent my father and his other children to school,” he said.
While at the Bangus Festival, JdV and his group were not able to resist the invitation of families to join them in their freshly grilled bangus dinner.
They were accompanied by Councilors Michael Fernandez, Farah Decano, Dada Reyna, Jose Netu Tamayo, Alfie Fernandez, Dr. Jesus Canto and Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez, the team’s general campaign manager.
De Venecia told newsmen that he and siblings are now continuing the bangus fishponds given to them by their forefathers as inheritance.
He reminded his audience that he helped put up the Philippine Bangus Center located at the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center in Bonuan Binloc to spearhead the continuing researches on bangus.
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