Cagayan Valley typhoon victims receive fingerlings from BFAR
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya (November 25) -- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources(BFAR) in Cagayan Valley has started distributing fingelings for fish farmers affected by typhoon "Pepeng" as part of its rehabilitation assistance plan.
Severina Bueno, BFAR assistant regional director and disaster action officer said their agency will provide 5.8 million pieces of fingerlings to 2,787 fish farmers in the region
"The affected fish farmers will be given such assistance based on the submitted masterlist of affected fish farmers. We are also asking other local government units to do the same inorder to immediately facilitate the needed assistance," she said.
Bueno said part of the fingerling assistance will be sourced from BFAR RO2 fish farms while the balance will either come from the BFAR NFFTC based in Muņoz, Nueva Ecija or be purchased from private hatcheries.
Bueno said their assistance will also complement calamity assistance efforts by local government units.
Typhoon "pepeng" damaged 1,079.95 hectares of fishponds and communal production areas, 37 fish cages, 26 fishing boats and assorted fishing gears in the province of Cagayan alone, she said.
The storm also damaged 236.73 Metric Tons of harvestable fish stocks worth P15.39 million. 7.91 million pieces of fingerling and juvenile stocks were also lost, according to BFAR report.
It added that the marketable stock represents 5.78% of region 02's aquaculture production target for the third quarter while the non-marketable stocks represents 1,111.4 MT tons of potential production within the next two to four months. (bme/PIA NVizcaya) [top]
