PAST OCT 30 DEADLINE

THE sixty-three illegal fish pens found in the city’s rivers, whose owners claim these are standing within their properties, have been spared anew from demolition by the City Agriculture Office despite the final deadline set by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez last October 30.

This was gleaned from a list submitted by the Office of City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina to The PUNCH that indicated the lot numbers where the fish pens are located, their total land area, and the total area of their properties under water and their respective locations.

Other illegal fish pen owners whose structures were removed, however, complained that the continued operation of the 63 illegal fish pens violate the city ordinance for which their pens were demolished.

“These pens must also be demolished for violating the city ordinance,” said one former fish pen owner who asked not to be identified. “There must be no sacred cows in the Fernandez administration,” The PUNCH source said.

Molina insisted she will await the validation of the claim by the city assessor’s office before enforcing the order of the mayor. Relative to this, Molina called on the concerned fish pen owners to submit proofs of ownership of their properties to her office.

In a PUNCH interview with City Legal Officer Vicky Cabrera last week, she said the order of Mayor Fernandez “is complete removal or demolition of all illegal fish pens on or before the deadline.”

She added that the ordinance does not make any exemption.

At presstime, the city legal office has not indicated whether complaints will be filed against owners of the fish pens who refused to dismantle their structures on the mayor’s order.

Earlier, City Assessor Roland Suni told the PUNCH that the titled properties are totally or partly under water, and therefore reverted back as part of the public domain by law, the owners are not willing to give up their claims to these properties unless their titles are cancelled through proper judicial process.

“Such a litigation process can take long,” Suni said.

A press release from the City Information Office quoted Molina as saying that after her office has cleared all navigational lanes in all coastal barangays of Dagupan, her office will set its eyes on fish pens still standing along banks of various rivers.

She said her office will cross-check the titles to be presented with the actual cadastral map of Dagupan rivers.

(The PUNCH noted that it was the nth time since 2013 when she first vowed to resolve the claims of owner of the illegal fish pens – Editor)

Names in the list whose properties are either totally or partially under water are: Dominador Tolentino (Lot No. 3534 in Calmay), Ramon Reyna (Lot No. 4867 in Lucao), Casimero Bacugan (Lot. No. 47819 in Lucao), Olivia Rosal (Lot No. 4705 and Lot No. 4706 in Lucao), Gonzales/Aquino (Lot No. 4696 in Lucao). Crispina Gonzales (Lot No. 4253 in Carael), (Lot No. 298, in Calmay), Benjamin Fernandez (Lot No. 4657-C in Carael), Arsenio Diaz (Lot No. 4726, in Lucao), Venancio Diaz (Lot No. 4726in Lucao), Venancio Bato (Lot. No. 4699 in Carael), Ignacio de los Reyes (Lot No. 3323 in Lucao), Arnulfo Carcha (PSU-194355 ND Lot No. 3182 in Pugaro), Hilario Torio (Lot No. 4679-PART, in Carael), Esperanza Daoana (Lot No. 4714-A in Lucao);

Juan Villanueva (Lot No. 3630 in Calmay), Francisca Paragas (Lot No. 5531in Calmay), Felix Quinto (Lot No. 4713-B in Lucao), Benigno de Vera (Lot No. 3273 in Calmay), Jose Idosil (Lot No. 3530 in Calmay), Necitas de Vera (Lot No. 3529 in Calmay), Agustin de Ocampo (Lot No. 4863 in Calmay), Agustin de Ocampo (Lot No. 4862-A in Lucao), Robert P. Gonzales (Lot No. PSU-122724(LOI 9363) in Calmay), Romeo Lim (Lot No, not legible),in Tapuac),  Charise Perez (Lot No. 4260 in Calmay), Ma. Natalia Bautista (Lot No. 3179 in Salapingao), Ma. Cheryl Tada (4711-B in Lucao), Lilia Yasar (Lot No. 4258-A in Carael), Jose Dy (Lot No. 4268-B and Lot. No. 4269 in Tapuac).

The other names in the list are Antonio Sibayan, Carael; Candida Manaois, Calmay; Catalina de Vera, Calmay, Morito Pitogo, Pugaro; Ignacio de los Santos, Lomboy; Aristedes Rous, Pugaro; Luzviminda Flores, Pugaro; Rodolfo Bautista, Pugaro; Isabelo de Vera, Calmay; Mario Jovellanos, Calmay; Hilarion Maramba, Calmay; Crispina Gonzalez, Calmay; Marcelino Fernandez, Carael; Morito Pitogo, Pugaro; Feliza Espinoza, Carael; Rosendo Reyes/Jose F. Calimlim, Lucao; Maximo de Ocampo, Lucao; Rodrigo Honrado, Lucao; Meranda Caramat, Tokok-Lucao; Felix Zabala, Lucao; and John Dacurong, Lucao.

Other details can be sourced at the CAO.

From July 2013 to October 27, or three days before the deadline set by Mayor Fernandez, the CAO and the Bantay Ilog Task Force reported that 664 units covering a total land area of 97.96 hectares scattered over navigation zones have already been dismantled. (Leonardo Micua)

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