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Laoag Mayor Michael M. Keon and Laoag councilor Handy Lao, chairperson of the committee on agriculture, lead the ceremonial stocking of modified intensive fry rearing of tilapia to advanced fingerling stage for village level production at Brgy. 60-B Madiladig. (Doms dela Cruz)
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)
Laoag City—To ensure
quality fingerlings supplies for fisher folks in the city, the city government
stocked at least 600,000 fries were at the Natures Wealth Probiotics Fish Farm located
at Sitio Baldias, Barangay 60-B Madiladig, this city.
Laoag mayor Michael M. Keon and Laoag councilor Handy Lao, chairperson
of the council’s committee on agriculture, personally visited the site recently
for the “ceremonial stocking of modified intensive fry rearing of tilapia to advanced
fingerling stage for village level production”.
Mr. Keon said this is a joint project between the National
Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), Bureau of Fisheries and
Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and Nature’s Wealth Probiotic Fish Farm, in cooperation
with the city government of Laoag through the “Magsasaka at Mangingisda sa
Kanayunan Program” spearheaded by the city agriculture office.
BFAR region I agriculturist center chief Dario Doctolero said the
activity will contribute an additional source of income among fisher folks in
the city.
Mr. Doctolero also added that this will also be the first time that
there was a wide-scale distribution of fingerlings to around 300 fish cages and
fishponds operators in the city, which also included inland and urban
barangays.
Mr. Keon thanked Emilio Perucho, the cooperator of the said
project and owner of Nature’s Wealth Probiotic Fish Farm for the realization of
the project by providing fishponds for the stocking of the fries.
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