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- Importation not key to fish shortage-lawmakers to DAFernandez, Butch; Dela Cruz, Jovee Marie (Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc., 2022-01-25)The closed fishing season should have been suspended by the Duterte administration instead of allowing fish importation by the Department of Agriculture (DA), Senator Cynthia Villar asserted on Monday. Villar, who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform, questioned the DA’s decision to greenlight the importation of 60,000 metric tons of galunggong (round scad) and other fish varieties at the first quarter of the year.
- Villar, Legarda question DA's 60,000-ton fish importCasayuran, Mario (Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, 2022-01-25)Senator Cynthia A. Villar and House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda on Monday, Jan. 24 questioned the decision of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to import 60,000 metric tons of fish. During her hybrid hearing on issues surrounding the fish industry as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform committee, Villar said the DA should have suspended the closed fishing season instead of deciding to import fish for the first quarter of 2022.