WHILE pushing for a law to protect ludong, fishery experts are perplexed over the non-inclusion of ludong as endangered in the list of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (Cites) in the country at present.

In a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) statement, it said “this is an irony since authorities have long recognized the importance of the species.”

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