LEGAZPI CITY— The City of Agriculture in Legazpi launches mobile boat marking and color coding to easily identify the boats of the fishermen in the city and to update their existing data.
They are planning to register 1,100 mobile boats in 19 coastal barangays from March to April this year.
In an interview by Bicol.PH, Legazpi City Councilor and Committee Chair of the Fishery Divisiont Renato Valladolid said they have registered and marked 300 mobile boats in 3 barangays which are both existing and new boats.
“Ito naming ina-update yung registry nung mga bangka dito sa ating Legazpi para man at least, kumbaga, makuha naman ‘yung datos ng ating mga fisherman. And syempre, sa proposal ko din talagang gusto ko din mabigyan ng mga (ayuda), bigyan ng pansin ang ating mga fisherman,” Valladolid stated.
Valladolid also says they plan to do the registration annually.
“Siguro dapat [yang] renewal, yearly ‘yan. I’m not sure nitong previous kung ginagawa nila na yearly. Ang sa akin ganun gusto ko mangyari ,” he said.
Meanwhile, they will provide color identification on the plate number of every boat in the city.
“Ang ginagawa kasi ‘yung sa number na muna [na] parang plate number nila, ang background kulay niya is (e.g.) blue tapos puti ang number. Yan lang muna kabilaan yan”
However, they’re planning to paint the whole boat for easy identification and expect to start next year.
“Pero mas maganda kung whole body na para maka-dagdag pa yan sa Tourism natin. Makita natin dyan sa nagla-laot na mga bangka pinturado maganda baga. Atsaka alam na alam kagad [saang brgy],” Valladolid added. | via Aimee Marie Sesno and Jemimah So
Photos: Renato Valldolid