date:Aug 14, 2012
ngs, and 205 tons of harvestable milkfish, tilapia, prawns, mudcrabs, and shrimps.
Perez said 16 per cent of the 40,285 hectares of fishponds in Region 3 were affected, including P2.9-million worth of fishing facilities and infrastructure that included two units of payao (a fish aggregating device consisting of a floating raft to attract pelagic and schooling species common in deep waters) in Mariveles, Bataan worth P1.2 million each) and 30 units of fish traps in Malolos, Bulacan worth P90,000