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'We need food, not white sand': Fishermen fear livelihood loss due to Manila Bay project
Sep 26, 2020
Gilbert Reyes has been fishing in Manila Bay for 25 years. He and many others whose livelihood depend on the area fear that this may soon end.
As part of the Manila Bay rehabilitation project, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) made an artificial beat at the Manila Baywalk using synthetic white sand made from crushed dolomite.
Two weeks later, dead fish washed up on the Baseco side of Manila Bay in Tondo. Residents claimed the waters also turned a shade of white from the distance.
While DENR denied the connection of the Baseco fish kill to the white sand project, the Cebu provincial government recently reported that corals within 500 meters of seawater in Barangay Pugalo, Alcoy, Cebu died because heavy siltation from the dolomite mines. This is the same town that supplied Manila Bay’s synthetic white sand.
DENR Undersecretary Benny Antiporda earlier refuted speculations that the fish kill in Baseco was caused by the white sand project, given the distance between Manila Baywalk and Baseco area. He also cited the breakwater.
Despite this explanation, fishermen in Manila Bay are worried what about their after seeing dead fish float at Baseco Beach, part of the shore of Manila Bay. Many of them claimed that it was their first time to see so many dead fish wash up there.
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