MUNICIPALITY/ CITY No. OF FISH CAGES NO. OF ALLOCATED FISH CAGES (PAMB Resl’n # 001-2007

Talisay 3,902 2,000

Laurel 2,451 1,360

Agoncillo 1,572 1,500

San Nicolas 1,181 1,000

Mataas na Kahoy 82 120

Tanauan City 34 0

Cuenca 0 20

Lipa 1 0

TOTAL 9,223 6,000

Inventory of fish cages in Taal Lake (as of March 2008)

* Conducted by BFAR-IFRC Batangas

Inventory of aquaculture structures within Pansipit River

MUNICIPALITY NO. OF FISHPENS

San Nicolas 97

Agoncillo 60

Lemery 7

TOTAL 164

* conducted by DENR Batangas in November 2007

Accomplishments by the Inter-Agency Task Force in Taal Lake

 CY 2008 On June 12, 2008 ( Independence Day) the dismantling

of fish pens and other structures within Pansipit River was started by the Task Force . The logistics were provided by the Provincial government of Batangas with the DENR and BFAR and other member agencies ( inc. NGOs/POs) providing technical as well as manpower support.

 On July 31, 2008 or after 45 days, the Pansipit River was

finally cleared of all structures. A total of 164 fish pens and undetermined numbers of small aquaculture structures and bamboo poles were dismantled along the approximately 8 km. stretch of Pansipit river.

 

On August 2008, the Task Force started series of public consultations with the fish cage operators/care takers in 5 municipalities ( San Nicolas, Tanauan City, Agoncillo, Laurel and Talisay) where there were large concentrations of fish cages and other structures.

  From September to December 2008, the Task Force conducted massive dismantling of abandoned fish cages as well as fish corals. In the year 2008 , the Task Force was able to demolished a total of 1,538 aquaculture structures of which 1,048 are fish cages and 490 fish corals/baklad respectively.From January to December 31, 2009, total number of aquaculture structures dismantled are 5,131 e.g. fish corals, cages etc.) and distributed 5,721 identification plates.

  

INVENTORY OF AQUA-CULTURE STRUCTURES IN TAAL LAKE*

MUNICIPALITY

FLOATING OTHERS

GRAND TOTALTOTAL SKYLABDAMAGED/ABANDON SUBMERGED TOTAL

TALISAY 3,115 136 17 263 416 3,531

LAUREL 1,395 109 21 8 138 1,533

SAN NICOLAS 1,163 22 24 7 53 1,216

AGONCILLO 1,397 0 2 0 2 1,399

MATAASNAKAHOY 29 0 0 0 0 29

CUENCA 6 0 0 0 0 6

TANAUAN CITY 2 0 0 0 0 2

GRAND TOTAL 7,107 267 64 278 609 7,716

*-- The 100% inventory was conducted from March 2 , 2010 to April 16, 2010 by the DENR –PASu, PG-ENRO,TK.