The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Visayas (BFAR Region 7) distributed 33,500 tilapia fingerlings and 16,000 bangus fingerlings in Cebu province, particularly in Cebu City and the towns of Asturias and San Remegio. Several tilapia backyard farmers, fishpond, and fish pen operators received fishery inputs from BFAR-7, through its Fisheries Production and Support Services Division (FPSSD) and its Cebu Provincial Fishery Office (PFO). Tilapia fingerlings were also released on inland waters, which are managed currently under the Balik Sigla sa Ilog at Lawa (BASIL) program, aiming to increase the fish stocks in these areas. BFAR- 7 has distributed fishery inputs to fish farmers and stocked fingerlings in some inland waters in Cebu province.

BFAR-7, through its Fisheries Production and Support Services Division (FPSSD) and its Cebu Provincial Fishery Office (PFO), dispersed 12,000 tilapia fingerlings to small-scale tilapia growers and released 18,000 tilapia fingerlings to inland waters in Cebu City and Asturias town on 15-September-2021.

At least five tilapia backyard farmers received fishery inputs: 1,000 each to two fish farmers from Barangay Malubog, Cebu City; 2,500 from Barangay Taptap, Cebu City; 5,000 from Barangay Bonbon, Cebu City; and 2,500 from Barangay Bago, Asturias town. BFAR-7 also allotted tilapia fingerlings for the two inland
waters in Cebu City and Asturias town that are up for restoration under the Balik Sigla sa Ilog at Lawa (BASIL) program, which aims to increase the fish stocks in these inland waters.

At least 8,000 tilapia fingerlings were released at the small water impounding project in Barangay Malubog, Cebu City while 10,000 fingerlings were provided for Buswang Lake in Barangay Bago, Asturias which is now under the care and management of the Buswang Lake United Farmers Association.

All the 30,000 tilapia fingerlings were sourced out from one of BFAR-7’s facilities – the Lake Danao Freshwater Fish Farm in San Francisco, Cebu in Camotes Islands.

In another development, a separate team was deployed to an upland village in Asturias town on September 16, transporting about 6,000 bangus fingerlings and 3,500 tilapia fingerlings to a small-scale fishpond operator from Barangay Calunasan. The fingerlings were initially supplied from the BFAR 7 – Carmen Brackishwater Fish Farm (CBFF) in Carmen town and were later on acclimatized from brackish to freshwater at BFAR 7 – Multi-Species Hatchery in Medellin.

The next day, the team proceeded to San Remegio town in northern Cebu to facilitate the delivery of the 10,000 bangus fingerlings from CBFF-Carmen to a fish pen operator in Barangay Jagnaya.

The distribution of the fingerlings, which is closely coordinated with the local government unit’s City and Municipal Agriculture Office, is part of the weeklong activities lined up for the 58th Fish Conservation Week observance.

Details & Photos | BFAR 7 – FPSSD: Joel Clapano; Cirila Libay; Mark Joseph Piloton;
and Marljun Evangelista
BFAR 7 – Cebu PFO: Joseph Eric Aparici
BFAR 7 – CBFF: Raymund Francis Nicanor

Source: https://www.facebook.com/BFARCentralVisayas/posts/3064484073832783