OPAg to disperse 140,000 tilapia fingerlings this month
LINGAYEN–The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAg) is set to disperse 140,000 tilapia fingerlings in the communal bodies of water in the towns of Aguilar, Umingan, Pozorrubio and Bugallon on July 18, 19 and 26, respectively.
Dalisay Moya, OPAg officer-in-charge, said of the whole dispersal load, 30,000 fingerlings will be released in nine different sites in Aguilar with Sta. Barbara Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery in Sta. Barbara as source.
Fingerlings harvested from the San Quintin Provincial Freshwater Fish will be dispersed in seven sites in Umingan at 40,000 while Pozorrubio will get 30,000 fingerlings in four areas.
In Bugallon’s rivers and creeks, 40,000 fingerlings sourced from the Lingayen Provincial Freshwater Hatchery and Sta. Barbara hatchery will be dispersed.
Moya said the dispersal project is a regular activity of the province that forms part of the agricultural thrust of Governor Amado Espino Jr. geared towards increasing tilapia stocks in the riverine areas of the province with an estimated area of about 9,000 hectares that directly benefit marginal fishermen.
Based on OPAg’s data, the provincial government had already dispersed more than four million fingerlings since Espino assumed the governorship in 2007. (PIO)
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