Decade of fisheries warnings catch up with PH in US crab ban

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IMPACTED. Fishers in Barangay Tomongtong, EB Magalona, Negros Occidental, at work. They say a US ban on Philippine crabs triggered an immediate drop in farmgate prices.

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The US restriction is triggered by a more than a decade-old set of problems: unabated dynamite fishing, persistent trawl fishing, mining activities, and rising sea toxicity driven by plastic pollution

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines – For more than a decade, warnings over the country’s fisheries sector accumulated with limited enforcement until a United States ban on crab imports brought into focus what stakeholders describe as long-standing structural failures in coastal resource management.