Hot weather a boon, not bane, to BFAR
IF people are complaining about the hot summer, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Pangasinan is not. It’s a boon, not bane!
Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), a research facility of BFAR in Dagupan City, cited three reasons.
“It (hot weather) is an advantage to us since it is during summer that the fishes lay their eggs and it only takes five to six days, instead of seven, to make salt out of sea water,” he told the KBP Forum on Thursday.
“It is also during summer when the “butanding” visit Pangasinan because small fish and shrimps are teeming at this time of the year.
NIFTDC is very busy today because it is the breeding season of fish particularly milkfish (bangus).
It is also during summer that the people of Pangasinan, particularly Dasol, Infanta, San Fabian, Mangaldan, Bolinao, Bani, Bolinao and Lingayen are producing salt and BFAR-NIFTDC encourages people in the coastal areas to pursue it.
Pangasinan (salt pan), as its name suggests, is famous for salt.
Summer becomes a bane, he said, when the hot weather begins to dry fishponds, particularly in western Pangasinan because their water increase salinity from up to 40 ppt from the normal of 35 ppt. (Leonardo Micua)
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