The Office of the Municipal Agriculturist (OMA) has intensified its campaign against illegal fishing at the onset of this year of the water dragon. It is really the dream of the OMA personnel that this problem will be totally eradicated this year, hence, the conduct of sea-borne patrol operation was more frequent even at the start of the new year. with the full support given by the Local Chief Executive Hon. Doroteo N. Palconit and the Chief of Police of the Municipality, several apprehended fishing paraphernalias were already burned just to discouraged illegal fishing perpetrators to sustain their illegal activities.
This year, OMA will be setting up a demarcation line utilizing styrofoam buoys from Calubian proper to Brgy Jubay at least more or less 150 meters from the seashore with demarcated area serving as Municipalwide fish Sanctuary where fishing is strictly regulated. This newly conceptualized project which was strongly endorsed by Mayor Palconit is to initially rehab the overfished sea waters of Calubian. Mayor Palconit has come up with this project to replicate the same project which he had implemented while he was still the Police Chief in the City of Ormoc. This project was successfully implemented in Ormoc bay.As of this writing, trawl fishing has already stopped its operation especially those fishermen who are residing in Calubian. Although, there are still few bira-bira operators who are still sometimes take advantage while there are no OMA personnel in the area. However, all coastal barangay officials and fishermen associations were already activated to serve as the bay watch team to conduct daily surveillance of the municipality's sea water and they were urged to report whatever observations they can get from their respective areas in order to make this campaign much more effective. If illegal fishing will be totally eradicated, it is expected that fishermen's catch will improve thereby improving their livelihood and increasing their income.
