Fisherfolk and environmental advocates blamed fishermen's plight on what they considered the “evil twins” now doing damage on Manila Bay away from public gaze: quarrying and reclamations. | krixiasINQ MariejoRamosINQ /PDI
In Cavite, a number of large vessels had entered the old fishing grounds, dredging the seafloor and filling their bellies with wet sand, before sailing off and leaving a wrecked marine ecosystem in their wake.
According to the Environmental Management Bureau , dredging operations in various areas of the bay currently cover about 13,530 hectares. Aware of the BFAR rejections, Rosales and his colleagues were thus puzzled by the continued presence of dredgers in the bay. According to the environmental impact statements submitted by the VIL and PRA to the EMB, the filling materials extracted by both operations were intended for government reclamation projects, including the 265-ha Pasay Reclamation Project near the SM Mall of Asia complex and the new international airport planned in Taliptip, Bulacan.
Like Rosales, Dula said he had encountered the dredging vessels up close when they dislodged his nets and laid his day’s work to waste.
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