LGU dismantles excess fish cages in Lake Buhi 07/24/2011

LGU dismantles excess fish cages in Lake Buhi

07/24/2011
BUHI, Camarines Sur — The municipal government here has started dismantling some fish cages located along the delineated areas serving as navigational lanes and buffer zones in Lake Buhi.
The move is to provide more breathing space for fresh water species thriving in the lake, the home to the world’s smallest fish locally called “sinarapan.”
The local government also enforced a massive clean of its water and bed to prevent the re-occurrence of fish kills owing to pollution brought about by unconsumed fish feed sediments and garbage that have been proven vicious to the local fishery industry.
“We have so far dismantled about 13,000 fish cages that occupied as much as 70 percent of the 1,707-hectare body of water to bring back to full life this lake and save from extinction the sinarapan and all its other fishes such as native catfish, tilapia, dalag, irin-irin, burirawan and puyo, among other fishes,” Buhi Mayor Rey Lacoste said over the weekend..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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