Over Two Million Tilapia Fingerlings Dispersed
30 January 2012PHILIPPINES - In a bid to make creeks and rivers more productive, some 2.7 million tilapia fingerlings were dispersed to communal bodies of water in the municipalities of Malasiqui, Pozorrubio and Agno last year.
ManilaBulletin reports that this is part of Gov. Amado Espino Jr.’s programme to protect the environment and boost the fisheries and aquaculture industries in Pangasinan. Espino led his constituents in a series of planting fruit-bearing trees. He vowed to plant at least one million trees in the province.
The Philippine National Police (PNP)-Pangasinan, led by Sr. Supt. Rosueto Ricaforte, supports Espino’s environmental program by launching their own tree-planting programme inside the PNP camp and in the vicinity of San Roque Dam in San Manuel town.
“Aside from increasing the production of tilapia in rivers, creeks and irrigation systems, the programme also aims to promote tilapia as a famous product of the province and enhance livelihood opportunities for fisherfolk in different municipalities,” said Butch Velasco, Public Information Officer.
Mayor Armando Domantay of Malasiqui, Mayor Artemio Chan of Pozorrubio and Mayor Jose Pajeta Jr. of Agno lauded Espino’s efforts in helping local folks increase their fish production.
Provincial Agriculturist Dalisay Moya said some 20,000 fingerlings that were harvested at the Sta. Barbara Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery’s pondliner, a man-made hatchery that uses alternative technology in breeding tilapia, were dispersed in the rivers of pieces) and Aliaga (5,000 pieces).
The San Quintin Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery allotted 30,000 fingerlings that were dispersed in Pozorrubio, particularly in Mabeldat Dam (8,000 pieces) in Bbarangay Bobonan; Manaol Dam (15,000 pieces) in Barangay Manaol; and Bued River (7,000 pieces) in Barangay Tulnac.
Some 36,000 fingerlings sourced from the Lingayen Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery were also distributed in Barangay Allabon (28,000 pieces) in Agno, particularly in Calabidan Creek and Gasao Creek; Communal Irrigation System (CIS) in bBarangay Tupa (2,000 pieces); CIS in Barangay Oda (1,000 pieces); and Sto. Rosario Creek (5,000 pieces) in Barangay Cayungnan.
Within three to four months, the fingerlings will grow into post fingerlings to juvenile and eventually become breeders, the marketable size, where a kilo is composed of six to seven pieces of tilapia (Scientific name Oreochromis niloticus).
A municipality or private fishpond operators can make a request to become a recipient of the free fingerlings through a letter addressed to the governor and after which a team of aquaculturists from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAg) and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will validate the status of communal bodies of water in the area.
Sine Espino’s assumption to office, the OPAg dispersed to communal rivers and private fishpond owners in Pangasinan a total of 2,664,494 pieces of tilapia fingerlings from July 2007 to December 2011.
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