Dagupan rivers finally clear of illegal fish pens
ALL illegal fish pens that mushroomed in Dagupan’s rivers beginning March this year have finally been dismantled and Task Force Bantay Ilog is now on monitoring mode to ensure that these are not re-installed.
Ronie Cayabyab, task force action officer, said all the 156 illegal fish cages in Dagupan marked for demolition have already been removed, giving way to the Bureau of Fisheries and Resources to speed up the profiling of the rivers.
Still spared from demolition are 58 pens pending the verification of the land titles presented by different individuals showing that their structures were built on part of their properties that were eroded.
There are, however, some 340 small fish cages, the biggest of which are 4 x 4 meters, owned by small-scale fish farmers that have been allowed to stay as these are being used to culture lapu-lapu, talakitok, and malaga among other species that do not commercial feeds but fish trash and therefore do not pollute the rivers.
Cayabyab said these are located in Sabangan in Bonuan, Dawel, Pugaro, Sitios Talaib and Tocok.
City Planning and Development Officer Romeo Rosario earlier said the clearing of the rivers is in line with the plan of Mayor Belen Fernandez to introduce fishery tourism.
The ferry will bring tourists to model fishponds in Pugaro, Salapingao, Bonuan Gueset, Watac in Mamalingling and Lucao.
A central ferry station is planned in front of the National Bureau of Investigation in Babaliwan from where tourists will board the boats. The docking area built by the past city administration at the foot of the Dawel bridge will also be utilized.
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