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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 480 |
Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
The Secretary
Department of Local Government and
Community Development (DLGCD)
The Secretary
Department of National Defense (DND)
The Director
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)
WHEREAS, to improve the standard of living in the rural fishing communities of the country; to conserve municipal fishery resources against the heavy exploitation of fish and aquatic resources in the entire marine water areas of the provinces of Northern Leyte, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Western Samar, and Sorsogon; to provide municipal and small-scale fishermen a wider area within which to operate fishing boats of three (3) gross tons or less and to increase their catch per unit effort, I caused the promulgation of Presidential Decree No. 1015 amending the first paragraph of Section 17 and Sec. 35 of Presidential Decree No. 704;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines do hereby order the following:
1.
That commercial operation of fishing gear such as
trawl and purse seine is hereby prohibited in the marine water areas
within a distance of seven (7) kilometers from the shorelines of the
provinces of Northern Leyte, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Eastern
Samar, Western Samar, and Sorsogon.
2. To achieve
effective prohibition of trawl and
purse seine operations in the restricted water areas of the aforestated
provinces, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Local
Government and Community Development, the Department of National
Defense, and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources are hereby
ordered to strictly implement the above order.
3. All the
municipal mayors and barangay captains of
all the municipalities and barangays of the provinces of Northern
Leyte, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Western Samar,
and Sorsogon shall, upon the recommendation of the Department of Local
Government and Community Development, subject to the guidelines to be
promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, through the Bureau
of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, be made deputies of the Secretary
of Natural Resources in the enforcement of these instructions, and all
other existing and related fishery laws, decrees, rules and
regulations.
4. The
municipal mayors and barangay captains so
deputized shall submit monthly reports of accomplishments to the
respective Provincial Philippine Constabulary Commands, copy furnished
the respective Provincial Fishery Program Officers and the Secretary of
the Department of Local Government and Community Development.
This Letter of Instructions shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.
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