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  • Protest at the Department of Agriculture
    04
    Feb
    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.&[...]
  • Buhay, kabuhayan at Karapatan! Kinse kilometro, Atin 'to!
    01
    Feb
    2025
    Municipal fisherfolk from various part of the country, with the support of allied NGOs, academe and religious sector, will gather together to show their resolve to defend their rights in light of the recent ruling by the Court allowing commercial fishers to fish within the municipal waters.
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