Balayan Municipal Fisheries Development 1. Background Information A. Geographic Location and Water Area Balayan water is the most protected water area of fH€ Bay from notheast monsoon and southwest monsoon winds. The municipal water, as defined by the LGC, include “not only streams, lakes, and tidal waters within the municipality, not being the subject of private ownership and not comprised within the national parks, public forest, timber lands, forest reserves, but also marine waters included between two lines drawn perpendicualrly to the general coastline from points where boundary lines of the municipality or city touch at low tide and a third line parallel with the genral coastline and 15 km from it.” Furthermore, the LGC provides that at “where two municipalities are 0 situated on the opposite shores that there is less than 15 km of marine waters situated between them, the third line shall be equally distant from opposite shores of the respective municipalities.” Please see attached Map 1 The land area is 10,873 hectares (83.5%) while the water area is 2,200 hectares (16.5%) or a total area of 13,073 has. The shoreline length is about 10.5 kilometers. See attached Map 2. B. Topography Balayan water has the longest and widest shallow area wherein the 90 meters deep starts from a distance of about 1.5 to 2.75 kilometers away from shoreline. The maximum water depth of 180 meters starts from a distance of 3.5 to 4.5 kms from the shoreline. This relatively shallow municipal water and the presence of several rivers and creeks indicate a higher primary productivity and therefore higher potential fish production or maximum sustainable yield. VE. Existing Water and Fishery Use Map 3 shows the existing and proposed water use. Two (2) big rivers serve as dumping area of industrial effluents coming sugar mill plant and the Phil Steel. Portions of the municipal water within the jurisdiction of Bgy Palikpikan, Bgy 10, Bgy 9, Bgy 8, San Juan, and Carenahan have fishery management projects (rehabilitation projects) like artificial reef and “payao.” The whole municipal water is used by the fishers in fishing activities to generate income. Since municipal fishers are allowed by law to catch fish in other municipalities, Balayan fishers venture to catch fish in said areas particularly at time wheh the fishers experience lesser catch in Balayan water. Details of the existing water use are discussed below: Fishpond Area Within Balayan Bay, Balayan and Taal has the smallest area of fishpond as shown in the following. Table 1® oe 2 Table 1. Fishpond Projects Municipality Fishpond Area (has) | Cultured Species Remarks Calatagan 212.50 ‘bangus & prawns - Balayan 40 s abandoned. Lemery 120 bangus & prawns : Taal 25 ‘bangus, prawn, government-owned, tilapia, maliputo San Luis 100 ‘bangus & prawns : The Table 2 below shows the specific areas where the mangrove, nipa, and the fishponds can be found in Balayan. Table 2. ‘Location. ‘Area Description Baclaran 2.5 has | nipa, between barangay proper and sugar plantation Baclaran/Carenahan boundary >0.5 ha. ipa Carenahan >05 ha nipa, by river course Balayan 1.9has. | nipa/mangrove fronting sea by barangay ‘Niyugan, undefined area of nipa throughout the poblacion Navotas 5.75 has, | nipw/mangrove, secondary growth in an abandoned fishpond area, 4 has of functioning, fishpond for milkfish culture; 0,5 ha, abandoned fishpond Carenahan to Baclaran 30.0 has | tidal reef flat area of 2 kilometers long and 150 ‘meters wide. All areas 69.81 has | swamps and marshes (this includes nip, ‘mangrove indicated above) All areas 230.47 has__ | waterbodies (crecks and rivers) D. Socio-economic aspect The Fishers and Density of Fishers Table 3 below shows that Balayan has the highest number of fishers, majority of which are classified as municipal fishers although it is only 2nd to Lemery in terms of number of commercial fishers. With the 5,250 fishers (commercial and municipal) of the whole of Balayan Bay and water area of 450 sq.km.; the density of fisher is about 12 fishers per sq.km. The principle of the movement from higher density to lower density applied to Balayan municipality with very much higher density of fishers which explains for the fact that Balayan fishers catch fish not only in other municipal waters within Balayan Bay but also outside of the Bay. In a situation where fishery management is not yet very strong, the higher density of fishers usually result to unsustainable fishery or declining fish catch. This is the case of Balayan municipal water. In the absence of motorized bancas or bigger bancas like that of the commercial fishing project, the marginalized fishers are forced by ‘circumstances to join commercial fishing operation in distant fishing grounds or engage in non- fishing activities,fo e e ; ‘Table 3. Some Data on Fishing (BAS statistics) Naa, Number of Fishers Niiber of Fishing Vessel/Baneas Conimercal | Municipal | Others | Commercial | Municipal | Municipal Motorzed_| ponsmoterized Caan | 4 03 ma | 4 ww | aa Balayan | 190 1240 zu) | 10 268 2 cae : 1160 : : 159 103 Lemey | 200 S73 9 31 16 Taal us wa |= 104 4 San Luis - 123, ] 70G) a 3 39 Matin 0 85 : vo om 8 Soi 154 . : SL 0 Toal [34 06 380 3 iis [ 784 (fry gatherers, seaweed gatherers, fishpond operators and workers (2) mostly fry gatherers G) fishpond operators and workers Details of Balayan Fishery Statistics CERD appraisal report showed that around 1,678 household members were engaged in fishing activities on part-time and full-time basis as against the total households of 2,830 households in the 10 coastal barangays of Balayan ‘maximum of 60% of the total household are engaged in fishing, Assuming that in each household there is one fisher, then a Barangay No. of No.of | No. of Total Fishers Fishers | Fishers No. of engagedin | engaged | engaged in | Fishers Fishing Ground fishing using | in fishing | fishing more than 16 | using | using non- hp(commer- | 3-16h.p. | motorized cial type) banca) Baclaran > 50 7 30 | Balayan, Mindoro, Calatagan Carenahan - 39 60+ 27 | Balayan, Lubang,,Calatagan San Juan 2 1 50+ 43. | Balayan, Sn Pedrino Hukay, Lubang Bonbon Bgy8-9) | 562 - 30 248 | Mindoro, Balayan Kotang.katang - n 2 32 | Balayan (Bagong Silang) ‘Niyugan (10) 20 70 - 70 | Balayan, Outside Balayan Damiballelos (11) - - 314 | Balayan, Palawan Navotas 195 - a 295 | Palawan, Balayan San Piro 440 : 7 440 | Outside Balayan Palipilean 132 27 = 159 _| Balayan, Outside Balayan Total 1391 199 299 1678 Fishing gears pangulong, | kawil, | palubog, (major gears) basnig, ppalutang, | kawil pangpayao__| palubog. _| Fishery species | dumpilas, | butikol, | butikol, (major species) | galunggong | tukoko, | bakoko, gulyasan, | hipon, | manitis, tulingan’ | tulingan _| sapsap