A shipper was issued with a Notice of Violation when unable to present a Local Transport Permit or LTP to BFAR enforcers upon inspection of their fishery cargoes in barangay Bolong, Zamboanga City. The land-based mobile checkpoint operation was conducted on March 9, 2023, at the east coast of the city by the Team 2 continue reading : BFAR SLAPS UNDOCUMENTED CARGOES WITH VIOLATION NOTICE, STRESSES THE NEED FOR LOCAL TRANSPORT PERMIT
Functions
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is the government agency responsible for the development, improvement, management and conservation of the country’s fisheries and aquatic resources. It was reconstituted as a line bureau by virtue of Republic Act No. 8550 (Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998). The bureau is under the Department of Agriculture. As continue reading : Functions