Fish Kill in the Philippines
Taal Lake in Talisay and Laurel in Batangas Philippines were hit by Fish kill.
Bangus and Tilapia production in the Philippines were largely affected by a massive fishkill that is estimated to reach a total of no less than 800 metric tons yesterday May 28, 2011.
The fishkill was then largely attributed to climate change that triggers the abnormal shift of temperatures within a very short time range.
Although there are some other factors that are being considered such as poisoning and sabotage but the observed sudden temperature change has the most likely acceptable explanation that the farmers would wanted to hear.
As of this writing, the farmers are hoping that the local government of the area and the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will join hands in helping them cope up with this tragic loss of livelihood most especially that enrollment period of their respective children will soon commence this first week of June.
The fishkill incident really affected our economy, because we are having a limited supply of fish, such as bangus and tilapia. most of all the places who are included in the incident because their local government cannot produce fund, we all know that the government receives money from the fish industry in their respective places. The businesses who are in fishing industry need to cope up because of their million losses against them because of the sudden temperature change which results to fish kill and losses of the fish industry. Thus, this results to limited supply of fish and because of that limited supply the fish price will become higher than the usual price.
