MAFAR conducts awareness campaigns on fish management, conservation

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Agrarian Reform, through its Fisheries Resources Management Division, has finally finished facilitating the awareness campaign on the management and conservation of large marine vertebrates in all of the region’s provinces, specifically in coastal municipalities with frequent stranding cases of marine mammals.

The MAFAR FRMD together with MAFAR Sulu, conducted the said activity in the Municipality of Pangutaran in Sulu on July 28-29, 2022.

Lectures and simulation activities on the Basic Responses for Marine Mammal Stranding were conducted. This was participated by the fisherfolk, BPAT, SB members, MDRRMO, and B/MLGU.

Moreover, The LGU has extended its gratitude to the ministry for its efforts in imparting the importance of managing and protecting marine mammals to their constituents.

In return, the MAFAR team thanked the LGU and the local communities for their active participation and support throughout the activity.