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Build roads, stop fish smuggling'
Romero, Maria (Concept & Information Group, Inc., 2022-12-19)
A network of agriculture groups said the government must ramp up efforts to scrutinize smugglers and importers diverting fish products to the wet market that violates existing regulations. In a press statement early this week, Tugon Kabuhayan, an umbrella group of food security advocates, said government authorities should hasten the construction of more roads from fish facilities to markets.
BFAR mulls moratorium on crackdown vs imported fish
Cariaso, Bella (The Manila Times Publishing Corporation, 2022-12-01)
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Wednesday said it was considering imposing a moratorium on the crackdown of imported frozen fish in wet markets amid criticisms that it was anti-poor. In a radio interview, Nazario Briguer, BFAR Information and Fisherfolk Coordination Unit chief, said he had informed BFAR Officer in Charge Demosthenes Escoto on the developments in the Senate after Senators Raffy Tulfo and Mary Grace Poe questioned the move of the agency to crack down on pampano and salmon starting on Dec. 4, 2022.