{"id":125445,"date":"2017-10-20T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=125445"},"modified":"2017-10-20T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T03:59:10","slug":"crablets-tilapia-fingerlings-dispersed-at-iloilo-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/20\/crablets-tilapia-fingerlings-dispersed-at-iloilo-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Crablets, tilapia fingerlings dispersed at Iloilo River"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125446\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Iloilo_River_towards_the_provincial_capitol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125446\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Iloilo_River_towards_the_provincial_capitol.jpg\" alt=\"The stocks were released along Zone 4 of the river in the vicinities of barangays Navais, Mandurriao and Fundidor, Molo of this city. (Photo by Iloilo Wanderer - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Iloilo_River_towards_the_provincial_capitol.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Iloilo_River_towards_the_provincial_capitol-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Iloilo_River_towards_the_provincial_capitol-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stocks were released along Zone 4 of the river in the vicinities of barangays Navais, Mandurriao and Fundidor, Molo of this city. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=32658101\">(Photo by Iloilo Wanderer &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ILOILO CITY \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Some 4,000 mud crab juveniles and 10,000 saline-resistant tilapia fingerlings were dispersed at the Iloilo River on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The activity was part of the stock enhancement program of the City Agriculturist Office (CAO) with the South East Asia Fisheries Development Center- Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) in Tigbauan, Iloilo providing the needed crablets and fingerlings.<\/p>\n<p>The stocks were released along Zone 4 of the river in the vicinities of barangays Navais, Mandurriao and Fundidor, Molo of this city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are expecting that after a quarter of the year, these stocks would invade our aquatic population and sustain the productivity of our river,\u201d CAO head Romulo Pangantihon said.<\/p>\n<p>The portion where the stocks were dispersed has been identified as a fishing area as stipulated in Regulation Ordinance \u200e2009-247.<\/p>\n<p>The fishing area extends from Carpenter\u2019s Bridge upstream.<\/p>\n<p>Pangantihon said strict regulation is necessary otherwise the stocks will be depleted.<\/p>\n<p>He added that several fisherfolks have claimed to have been able to send their children to school and became professionals out of the income they earned from fishing at the Iloilo River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to sustain this activity at the Iloilo River,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s dispersal program was also aligned with the Fish Conservation Week celebration that is being spearheaded by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILOILO CITY \u2014\u00a0Some 4,000 mud crab juveniles and 10,000 saline-resistant tilapia fingerlings were dispersed at the Iloilo River on Friday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":125446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[28820,28818,28817,28819],"class_list":["post-125445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-city-agriculturist-office-cao","tag-crablets","tag-south-east-asia-fisheries-development-center-aquaculture-department-seafdec-aqd","tag-tilapia-fingerlings-dispersed-at-iloilo-river","mauthors-perla-lena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}