DAGUPAN CITY: Mayor Belen Fernandez expressed the need to protect the 15-kilometer municipal waters of Dagupan now being intruded by illegal fishers coming from nearby provinces.

This after an illegal fisher was caught red-handed Saturday by members of Task Force Bantay Ilog while conducting dynamite fishing near a fish aggregating device called payao installed by the Dagupan City government and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), some three kilometers off Barangay Pugaro of this city.

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