Sardines shortage? Fishers’ group thinks it’s just a ploy

MANILA, Philippines --- An organization of fisherfolks on Tuesday asserted that the supposed shortage of "tamban" (Indian sardines) is only being used by big fishing firms to make their large vessels enter the country's municipal waters. But Fernando Hicap, national chairperson of the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), insisted that "municipal waters should remain as it is -- exclusive [for] small fisherfolk." "Operators of commercial fishing vessels should not take advantage of this alleged tamban shortage to push their legal entry [into] the municipal fishing zone," he said in a statement. "Big-fishing vessels remain to be one of the major...

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