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DAGUPAN’S BEST Newly harvested milkfish from fishponds and pens in Dagupan City are unloaded at Magsaysay fish market in this photo taken in April. Fishponds in Dagupan grow “Bonuan bangus,” one of the best-tasting varieties of milkfish in the country. —WILLIE O. LOMIBAO
BINMALEY, PANGASINAN, Philippines — At 2 a.m. of May 16, Joebert Correa, 57, waded into his fishpond here after noticing the “bangus” (milkfish) he was raising were gasping for air following a light rain.
“I already turned on the aerator at 12 a.m., but I observed that the fish were not swimming toward the area where the water was moving. So I got a water pitcher and poured water on them so they would swim toward the aerator. Otherwise, they would have died due to lack of dissolved oxygen,” Correa told the Inquirer.
He was fortunate to save his milkfish stock. But elsewhere in the town, a fish pen operator suffered big losses after being forced to harvest his bangus stock when the fish began gasping for air following the rains in recent days.
