Whale sharks, locally known as “butanding,” have been spotted once again at Tayabas Bay about a month after the most recent storm to hit the country, according to residents of the coastal town of Sariaya and an environmental group based in Quezon province.
Since then, the butanding have returned. Lim and Edwin Frias — a fish warden, or marine version of a wildlife officer, at Sariaya — have been taking videos of the sea creatures after they have become an almost regular sight.Sherwin Rosales, a fisheries technician at Sariaya’s agriculture office, said the whale sharks are “usually spotted in the vicinity of fish sanctuaries fronting the coastal villages of San Roque and Bignay 2.
“With the return of more butanding,… it indicates the presence of more fish in our waters,” Rosales said. Fishermen said this butanding, which measured 8 meters long and 2 meters wide and weighed 11 tons, was hit by a commercial fishing boat. Three years later, a sperm whale weighing around 50 tons and measuring 17 meters long was found dead also at Lamon Bay, at the coast of Calauag town. Residents there said the animal died from blast fishing.
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