BBM urged to back DFAR creation

GIVEN the potential of the fishery industry to solve the twin problems of malnutrition and rising food prices, the sector's leaders are urging the administration of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to certify as urgent the bill creating the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR).

"We are one — municipal, commercial, business, aquaculture, postharvest — in voicing the need for DFAR. We want an office that has a desk. So, let us create the DFAR, we will have seafood security," said Roberto "Ka Dodoy" Ballon, Tugon Kabuhayan convenor and a recipient of Asia's Nobel Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award.