Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources(BFAR)

January 22, 2019 Dear Lylve Maliz Zeller, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Nov 24, 2017 01:04:39 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Status and Trends of Fisheries in Region 6. Response to Request This is to formally acknowledge your request for information from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. We would like to apologize for not promptly responding to your request.. This is due to some technical gaps we have encountered in securing access to the FOI portal. It is only now that we have been able to access the pending requests sent through the portal. Please rest assured however that we have already initiated measures to address the cause of delay and improve further our services. With regards to your request, kindly refer to the following answers below: 1. most recent (updated) document on the status and trends of fisheries (all sectors) in Western Visayas. For the recent updated document of status and trends of fisheries in Western Visayas, kindly refer to attached fisheries production data. 2. raw data on the costs and returns estimates for milkfish, tilapia, seaweeds, mussel and oyster in region 6 from 2000 up to most recent year For the raw data, kindly refer to the attachment of the cost and return estimates for each specific species. 3. information on technologies employed in the aquaculture sector in region 6 for each of the above mentioned species. For information on technologies, we will email you the brochures for the technologies employed for each of the above mentioned species. Thank you. Respectfully, FOI Decision Maker FOI Receiving Officer