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PROVINE OF PANGASINAN
DIRECTED BY; SAM JUN A. SISON, SAM LEO G. URMAZA AND SAM CECILIO P.
TERRADO JR, M.D
2. Aquaculture fishery operations involving all forms of raising and culturing fish and
other fishery species in fresh , brackish and marine water areas.
4. Aquatic Resources include fish, include all flora and fauna and other living
resources of the aquatic environment, including but not intend to salt and corals.
5. Closed Season the period during which the taking of the specified fishery species
by a specified fishing gear is prohibited in a specified areas in municipal waters.
6. Color Coding System- is a system, which has identifying mark on a fishing boat
according to the division and classification of the municipal water. It shall be four (4)
inches side and four (4) feet long situated at the upper portion of the bow, port and
starboard side of the fishing boat.
7. Commercial Fishing- the taking of fishery species by passive or active gear for trade,
business or profit beyond subsistence or sports fishing to be further classified as:
8. Coastline refers to the outline of the mainland shore touching the sea at mean
lower low tide.
9. Coral Reef- a natural aggregation of coral skeleton, or without living corals polyps,
occurring in intertidal and subtidal marine waters.
10. Deleterious Method of Fishing- is fishing with the use fishing gear/ method which is
harmful to the growth of corals and its environment and / or detrimental to the habitat of
marine life.
11. Communal Fishing Ground- tidal waters included within the municipality not being
the subject of private ownership and not intended for the purpose of growing and/ or
culture of fish. A fishing ground for ambulant fishermen using catch and easy apparatus
such as gill nets, push nets (sayosor), cast net (sabokol) devised to catch fish and other
fishery products.
12. Demarcated Areas- boundaries defined by marker such buoys and assigned
exclusively to specific individuals or organizations for certain specific and limited use
such as: Mangrove plantation or reforestation, catching or taking bangus fry or fry of the
species, culture of oysters and green mussels, seaweed farming, fish shelters, and
fishing with the use of hook and line; Fish Culture in fish cages, sea ranching, passive
fishing gears such fish traps, fish attracting and aggregating devices such as artificial
reefs and payaos: and commercial fishing with or without fishing vessels of less than 3
GT; Commercial Fishing vessels of more than 3 to 150 GT.
13. an amount fixed fixed by law of ordinance for regulation of business and
activity
14. Mash Net - net with mesh size of less than three (3)centimetres measured
between two(2) opposite knots of full when stretched .
15. Fingerlings a stage of fish measuring to about six (6) to thirteen (13)centimetres
depending on the species.
16. Fish Coral or Baklad a stationary trap devised to intercept and capture fish
consisting of rows of bamboo stakes of other materials fenced with split bamboo matting
or wire nettings with one or more enclosures usually with any entrance but difficult exi,
and with or without leaders to direct the catching chamber or pursue.
17. SkyBlue - a stationary trap devised to intercepts and capture fish consisting of rows
of bamboo posts with one enclosure at the end for easy entrance of fishes and algae is
placed therein to attract fishes from entering the same.
18. Fisherfolk people directly or personally and physically engage in taking and for
culturing and processing fishery and aquatic resources.
19. Fisherfolk Cooperative a duty registered association of fisher folk with a common
bond of interest, who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common social
economic end, making equitable contribution to the capital requirement and accepting a
fair share of the risk and benefits of their undertakings in accordance with the
universally accepted cooperative principles.
20. Fisherfolk Organization an organized group, association, federation, alliance or an
institution of fisherfolk which atleast 15 members, a set of officers, a constitution and by-
laws, and organization structure and aprogram of action.
21. Fishfry - a stage at which a fish has been hatched usually width from 1 to 2.5 cm.
22. Fishing - the taking of fishery species from their wild state or habitat with or without
the use of fishing vessel.
23. Fishing Gear any instrument or device of its accessories utilized in taking of fish
and other species classified as:
26. Fishing Permit- a document which the municipality allows the license to conduct
fishing operation in municipal waters.
27. Fish Pond- a land based facility enclosed with earthen or stone materials to
impound water for fishing growing fish.
28. Fishery Refuge and Sanctuary a designated area where fishing to other forms of
activities which may damage the ecosystem, of the area of probihited and human
access maybe restricted.
29. Fishery Reserved is designated area where activities are regulated and set aside
for educational research purposes.
30. Fishing Boat Vessel/Boat any boat, ship other water craft equipped to be used for
taking fishery species or aiding one (1) or more vessels in the performance of any
activity relating to the performance of any activity relating to fishing including but not
limited to, preservation, supply, storage, refrigeration, transportation, and/or
processing.
31. Fishing with Electricity the use of electricity by dry cell batteries, electric
generators or other sources of electric power to kill, stupefy, disable or render
unconscious any fisheries/ aquatic products in both fresh or sea water areas.
32. Fishing with Explosive the use of dynamite, other explosive or other chemical
compounds that contains combustible elements or ingredients which upon ignition by
friction, confusion, percussion, or detonation, of all parts of the compound, will kill,
stupefy, disabled to render unconscious any fishery species. It also refers to the use if
any other substance or device which cause an explosion that is capable of damaging
and altering the natural habitat.
33. Fishing With Obnoxious or Poisonous Substance the use of any substances, plan
extract or juice therefore, sodium cyanide compounds or other chemicals either in a raw
or render unconscious any fishery species and aquatic resources and capable of
damaging and alerting the natural habitat.
34. Fishworker a person regularly or not regularly employed in commercial fishing and
related industries, whose income is either in wage , profit sharing or stratified sharing
basis, including those working in fish pens, fish cages, fish corrals/traps, fish ponds,
prawn farms, sea farms, salt beds, fish ports, fishing boats aor trawlers, or fish
processing and/or packing plants, excluded from this category are administrator.
35. Pyle Net (Pasabing) a stationary trap devised to intercept and capture fish,
consisting of two walls of net forming V shape with catching chamber at the point of
intercections of thye two walls.
36. Inibot hulbot (Danish Serine , Bira- bira, Zipper) refers y\to the fishing gear
consisting of conical shaped net with pair of wing, the ends of which are connected to
the two ropes with burt or similar materials serving as a herding of scaning device, with
hauling ropes passing through a metallic ring attached to ton weight knows as a
flinggote in the vernacular, when hauled into the fishing boat.
37. Illegal fishing the use of explosives, obnoxious/ poisonous substances, electricity,
other method prohibited as a defined innthis ordinance.
38. Inland Fishery the fresh water fishery and brackish water fishponds.
39. Lagaon a stationary fish shelter consisting of rows of any cut branches of trees
devised to trap fishes and oter fishery product.
42. Municipal Waters include not streams, lakes, inland bodies, of water and tidal,
waters within the municipality which are not included within the protected areas as
defined under RA No. 7586 (NIPA Law), public forest, timber lands, forest reserves or
fishery reserves, but also marine waters included between the two(2) lines
perpendicular to general coastline from points where the boundary of lines of the
municipality which touch the sea at low tide and a third line parallel with the general
coast line including offshore islands and 15 kilometers from such coastline.
Where 2 municipalities are situated wit opposite shores that there is less than 30
km of marine waters between them, the third line shall be equally distant from opposite
shore of the respective municipalities.
43. Oyster Bed a stationary culture beds for growing oyster consisting of rows of
rubber tire strips or bamboos stake into the ground.
44. Oyster Culture the cultivation of oyster in suitable water areas by method of with
appropriate intensive care for production purposes.
45. Purse Seine a form of encircling net having a line at the bottom passing through
rings attached to the net, which can be drawn of pursed. In general, the net is set from
as boats or pair of boats around.
46. Resource Rent the difference between the value of the product produce from
harvesting a publicly owned resource less the cost of producing, where cost includes
the normal return to capital and normal return to labor.
47. Trawl an active fishing gear consisting of a bag shaped net with or without outer
boards open its opening which is dragged or towed along the bottom or through the
water column to take fishery species and staining them from the water, including all
variations and modifications of trawl ( bottom, midwater, and baby trawl and tow nets )
1. CLASIFICATION OF RIVERS
A CLASS A
Rivers with widths not less than 80mtrs include rivers covered by; Zone 1-3; 2-2A; 1-5;
9-12A; 13-15; 15-16
1. Pasabing
2. Oyster bed
SUBTOTAL
283
C. Class C
- This Includes rivers with widths of 30 meters to 49 meters 49 meters covered by
zones 14 14A,15- 15A, 15B, 15C
ZONE AREA Navigational Minimum Allowed
(Hectares) Lane Width Buffer Zone Fishing
(m) Width (m) Apparati
14-14AC 5.76 10 5 28
(Salapingao)
15-15A 11.52 10 5 57
(Caloocan
Norte)
15B-15BC 4 10 5 PROPOSED
(Sabangan, SANCTUARY
Buenlag)
SUBTOTAL
85
D. CLASS D
- Includes rivers with widths 29 meters below
- These rivers are all communal fishing ground.
- No fishing apparatus shall be allowed in this rivers.
ZONE AREA Navigational Minimum Allowed
(Hectares) Lane Width Buffer Zone Fishing
(m) Width (m) Apparati
NO FISHING
APPARATI
ALLOWED
Subtotal
Grand Total
925
Section 4B.03. USES OF MUNICIPAL WATERS All fishery related activities in the
municipal waters within fifteen kilometers from the general coastline of the
municipality at low tide,as defined in this ordinance, shall be utilized by the municipal
fisher folk and their organizations listed as such in the registry of fisherfolk. Provided,
that in the absence of such organizations and cooperatives of their failure to
exercise their preferential rights other parties may be granted fishing privilege
according to the provisions of RA7160 and RA 8550.