04
Feb
2025
2025
The biggest organizations of small-scale fishers in the Philippines gathered at the University of the Philippines on February 4 to show their resolve to defend the 15-kilometer municipal waters from the encroachment of commercial fishing vessels.
This action arose from a court ruling allowing commercial fishers into the 15-kilometer municipal waters. By Philippine law, municipal fisherfolk whose fishing vessel is three gross tons or less, are given the preferential right of access over the 15-kilometer municipal waters in all coastal cities and municipalities in the country.&[...]