While it imposes a fishing blockade in the West Philippine Sea, China has become the country’s biggest source of imported
In a statement, Recto said China has cordoned off Bajo de Masinloc , claiming it as a backyard fishpond and declaring it off-limits to its true owners — Filipinos.
“By cutting our access to a major protein source, China is playing a different kind of hunger games, making fish scarce for us, while satiating its people’s large appetite for seafood,” he said. “Chinese constriction of the WPS cripples a pillar of our food security, as that area contributes almost 30 percent of commercial fisheries output,” he said. “And as we grapple with a fish shortage, partly due to the fact that our access to WPS has been denied, we resort to imports. And the painful irony is that we buy fish from China – the very source of our discontent.”
Asked for comment, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources confirmed that China is the biggest source of the country’s fishery imports.
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