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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will file charges against Chinese fishermen if the government finds legal basis on their alleged use of cyanide to damage Bajo de Masinloc or the Scarborough Shoal.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIf we feel that there is an enough ground to do so, we will,\u201d President Marcos told reporters on the sidelines of the 16th Ani ng Dangal 2024 on Tuesday in Manila when asked if he intends to file charges against Chinese fishermen.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) reported over the weekend that they have received reports that Chinese fishermen are using cyanide to \u201cintentionally destroy Bajo de Masinloc to prevent Filipino fishing boats to fish in the area.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Marcos said that he knew about the alleged cyanide fishing of the Chinese fishermen based on reports from BFAR, but he emphasized that the incident in Bajo de Masinloc is \u201cmore alarming\u201d as it has been a prevalent practice in Philippine waters.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI do know that there are cases of cyanide fishing before even here in the Philippines, but I think the reason that it has been more alarming is that it has become more prevalent kaya \u2018yun ang inaalala natin,\u201d President Marcos said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the case develops, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) has ordered the BFAR to gather pieces of evidence to support their claims on the alleged cyanide fishing by the Chinese fishermen in Bajo de Masinloc.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will file charges against Chinese fishermen if the government finds legal basis on their alleged use of cyanide to damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}