THEY come like a thief in the night.
Small-scale fishers in the San Miguel Bay town of Calabanga in Camarines Sur complain that commercial fishers undermine their only source of livelihood.
"Most of the commercial fishers operate at night in more than 20 fishing vessels," said Alex Asagra, 35, who has been fisherman for 10 years in Barangay (village) Bonot-Sta. Rosa.
He said some commercial fishers were using finely-meshed nets which capture even fingerlings that little would be left for them (small-scale fishers) to catch.
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