Despite life’s glitches …
This woman can still smile for the camera as she busies herself baiting
close to a hundred fish hooks for casting in the following night’s fishing
expedition at the Mambulao Bay. Her fisherman-husband’s daily catch just barely
meets her household needs as fish has become difficult to find, prompting him
and the rest of other local fishermen to venture out of the municipal fishing
zone where better catch could be had. They said that the bay has been
overfished aside from being severely polluted by wastes from gold operations
around the community. The mining wastes, they claim, are being dumped into the
bay but the concerned government agencies such as the Environmental Management
Bureau (EMB), Mines and Geosciences Bureau and the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (DENR) seem unmindful of the ecological problems in the
community. – MWBuzzpic by ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ
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