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Without a budget for Cebu City's Bantay Dagat Office, no more wardens can patrol the sea for illegal fishers, or maybe protect some whale sharks. Retired Supt. Ranulfo Sebusa of the Bantay Dagat lamented that the City ...
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Without a budget for Cebu City?s Bantay Dagat Office, no more wardens can patrol the sea for illegal fishers, or maybe protect some whale sharks.
?Maybe the whale sharks returned because illegal fishing declined and so has the uyap (krill) in the sea,? he said in Cebuano during a press briefing at the Public Information Office of City Hall.
Mayor Michael Rama, in a separate interview, said he will meet with Sebusa to explore other funding. He said he would ask his cousin lawyer Ernesto Rama to help arrange a donation of equipment by his Japanese friends to the Bantay Dagat.
Sebusa said Bantay Dagat also needs intelligence funds to strengthen their market denial campaign of illegally caught fish, mostly from the provinces of Zamboanga, Leyte and Bohol.
Sebusa said it is possible that the whale sharks the fishermen spotted near the SRP were among the whale sharks found in Oslob town in south Cebu.
Rama agreed that the coast watch force needs more equipment to protect and preserve the whale sharks recently spotted in the coastal waters. /Correspondent Edison A.