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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1261 |
The Ministry of Local Governments
In order to assist municipal fishermen to fully exploit as well as protect municipal fishing grounds of the country from over exploitation; and
In pursuit of the objectives of Presidential Decree No. 704 to keep the fishery resources of the country in optimum productive condition and within easy reach of sustenance fishermen, you are hereby directed to undertake the following:
1.
Cause the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to prepare and
submit a report without delay on the location, extent and overall
assessment of fishing grounds outside municipal waters but within the
economical and safe range of municipal fishermen or are traditionally
being exploited by such group of fishermen. The report shall be the
basis for the designation by Fisheries administrative order, fishing
grounds for the exclusive use of sustenance fishermen.
2. Mobilize
the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources for the identification of
communal fishing grounds throughout the Philippines especially those
within depressed regions. This shall be done as soon as possible to
serve as basis for the immediate designation by fisheries
administrative orders of such grounds as provided for in Sec. 31 of
Presidential Decree No. 704.
3. Initiate
thru the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority, the formulation
and pilot testing of a vocal and open scheme of fish auction aimed at
the gradual phase out of the "Bulungan" scheme of fish auction
throughout the country.
The municipality or local government shall have jurisdiction and responsibility in the management of the municipal waters.
Existing appropriations of agencies involved in the implementation of this project could be utilized subject to Sec. 40 of Presidential Decree No. 1177.
Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-two.
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