Tag: Manila

In response to Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque’s remark on Manila Bay fish kill

News Release

First of all, some of the dead fishes found in the shorelines of Baseco were actually the hybrid tilapia, locally known as “arroyo”. It belongs to euryhaline species, a type of aquatic organism that can adapt to high levels of salinity. It is not the common tilapia that can be cultured and only suitable in freshwater and low-salinity waters. But most of the dead fishes were Manila Bay’s endemic such as the common whiting or “asohos”, biya, kanduli, among others.

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Complaint Letter Against the 420-hectare Bacoor Reclamation Project

News Release

Moreover, the small fisherfolk of Bacoor City is complaining about an ongoing reclamation activity of fishpond located in Barangay Maliksi III of the said city, beside a public cemetery, involving equipments from the Bacoor City local government, but the activity is without signages of project details. It is dump-filling the fish pond with materials mixed with garbage and is threatening to destroy the remaining mangrove forests in the coastal town.

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