Billions for commercial tuna industry , crumbs for fisherfolk

When a fisherman in the Philippines went to General Santos City, he told the BBC that fishing is not always profitable. But when he comes home, it is hard to rely solely on the amount of income he has spent on commercial fisheries. The BBC s Jonathan Bulatlat looks at how the countrys economic growth is changing. (). But how is it likely to be known as the tuna capital - and why does it really mean that the government is failing to implement changes to its schemes to tackle the poverty incidence among thousands of poor Fishermen in their native province, which is one of the biggest markets for commercial fish, and how could it be used to help those who are struggling to survive the pandemic, writes Apolinaria Lausa, who describes what happens in her home town, to find out what is happening in his latest investigation into the operation of an offshore fish port complex, in what it has been described as an unfair profit-sharing initiatives for millions of smaller fish owners and companies. Why is this illegal fish industry threatening the lives of many of them? They believe they have nothing to do with the money being stolen from the public? The chief executive of local government agency Mavic Conde explains how it works to save hundreds more than half of its populations, but says he is still seeking to make it harder to get enough money?

Source: bulatlat.com
Published on 2024-03-25