‘Fishes that survived Taal volcano need feeding’

Alive and flipping: A fish jumping as a fisherman is trying to show what he caught at the lake beside Taal volcano where residents have evacuated to safer grounds in Agoncillo, Batangas province. — AP

MANILA: The 3,000-strong Taal Lake Aquaculture Alliance, Inc. (TLAAI) has appealed to government authorities to give its members sufficient “window hours” everyday to feed and harvest thousands of tonnes of healthy, marketable fish still in their cages.

In a letter to Agriculture Secretary William Dar, Batangas Gov Hermilando Mandanas and other ranking government officials involved in Taal’s rehabilitation, TLAAI reported that about 70% of their fish cages survived and are still floating despite Taal volcano’s destructive eruption.