ROXAS CITY, Capiz (PIA) – A house-to-house campaign in the fishing villages of Pilar town is being conducted by the members of the Provincial Bantay Dagat (PBD) to finally end illegal fishing activities along and within Pilar’s municipal waters.

The PBD is locally known as “Task Force Yuhum” or a unit organized to defend the livelihood of the small fishermen and fisherfolks from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities.

along Pilar Bay as well as in the territorial waters of Roxas City and other coastal municipalities in the province has become compensating and less time – consuming as fish species have been populating the fishing grounds barely three months since the province’s seaborne patrollers were commissioned as frontliners in the campaign against marine and coastal waters poachers.

Recently, a video documentary featuring dynamite fishing blast victims turned responsible  fishermen was produced by the CaPENRO as a campaign material against those who still engaged in illegal fishing.

The province has a vast and rich fishing ground covering the coastal waters of Roxas City as well as Sapian, Ivisan, Panay, Pontevedra, President Roxas and Pilar towns. (JBG/AAL/PIA Capiz)