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Uploaded by on Dec 6, 2007

The Tanon Straight, between the islands of Negros and Cebu in the Visayas, Philippines, is home to 11 of the 24 ceteceans (whales and dolphins) found in the Philippines. These are spinner dolphins swimming along with our boat - just a small number of the likely hundred or so we saw that day!

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  • In fact, the Tanon Strait is officially declared a Protected Seascape by Presidential Declaration 1234, with commerical fishing banned, but it is very poorly enforced. Also, the killing or eating of dolphins is banned. Practically, these animals are much more valuable to the Philippines as tourism magnets than as food.

  • That kind of fishing (large commercial) when improperly regulated, as it basically is in the Philippines, leads to massive overfishing and is a major reason that the fish catch in the Philippines has been declining for decades. Obviously that hurts not only the commercial industry itself, but more problematically, the marginal fisherfolk.

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  • When I was about 10, 12?; I used to go with a purse seine (fishing fleet)[my aunts owned the only one in our town Tuburan at that time]The fleet is crewed by about 50 and more persons.

    I've seen that countless times trying to outrun our boats. we used that as our food in the sea sometimes (some kind of beefy taste) They're considered as nuisance before, in the 60's. I don't know now

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