BACOLOD CITY: Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol assured an improved output and stricter policies from the country’s agricultural and fishery sector.

Speaking before more than 1,000 participants to the 11th National Shrimp Congress held here recently, Piñol said the country’s aquatic resources are abundant but fishermen could not take advantage of it as the fisheries industry has been “long neglected” and “taken for granted” by the previous administrations.

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