RESERVING CERTAIN AREA OF THE PHILIPPINE WATERS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF QUEZON PROVINCE FOR A MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION TO BE ESTABLISHED AND OPERATED BY THE LUZONIAN COLLEGE…

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section 73
of Act Numbered Four thousand and three, as amended, I hereby reserve for a
marine biological station to be established and operated by the Luzonian Colleges
under the supervision and control of the Director of Fisheries, subject to
private rights if any there be, a certain marine area of Philippine waters
situated in the Municipalities of Lucena and Padre Burgos, Quezon Province,
Island of Luzon, and more particularly described and delimited as follows:

“Starting from the coastline off Tayabas Point
(13° 33′ 30″ N. 121° 36′ 45″ E.), Lucena, Quezon Province, Luzon Island and
following the line due south to a position (13° 51′ 00″ N. 121° 36′ 45″ E.)
about 2 ½ miles from Tayabas point, thence along the line due east to a
position (13° 51′ 00″ N. 121° 52′ 12″ E.) about 15 1/3 miles distant from the
immediately preceding position, thence along the line due north to its
intersection with the coastline of the mainland of Luzon Island, and thence
along the coastline to the starting point.”

The use of the said reservation shall be subject
to the following rules and regulations:

1. That commercial fishing shall be limited to
the use of the following fishing appliances with certain limitations: baklad, kawil, pante, kitang, pukot laot, pukot tabi, pahila, pabahay, dayakus, sapyaw, basnig, salambaa, bintol, bombon, katigbi, kubkob, and
Muro-ami However, all forms of subsistence
fishing gear such as bingwit, dala, sakag, pana, subsod and
the like shall be allowed without restriction at any time of the year. Provided,
however, That baklads shall be
constructed with a distance of not less than 200 meters from each other and not
less than 100 meters if owned by the same owner. Provided, further, That
baklad set across straits, channels, streams and rivers shall leave open
one third of the passage to allow free navigation and migration, to and from,
of estuarine and catadromous fishes.

2. Sapyaw, basnig, talaeop, cubcob, largarete
and muro–ami
shall only be allowed to operate during the southwest and northerly period (May to February, inclusive of each
year) and closed during the rest of the year “(March and April).

3. That the catching of bangos
fry (kawag-kawag) and sugpo
fry shall be allowed; provided, that the fry of other commercial fishes
shall be returned back into the water unharmed.

4. That the catching of the bañgos breeders (sabalo) shall be prohibited from February 1 to July
31, inclusive of each year.

5. That the catching of the fry of banak, sardines, herrings, mackerel, caranx, samara, alimasag and alimango shall be prohibited at all
season of the year in the reservation.

6. That the destruction of coral reefs and other
natural habitats of aquatic animals, except in the interest of safe navigation,
shall be prohibited. The commercial gathering of coral rocks, sand and gravel
for construction purposes shall be subject to special permits to be issued by
the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

7. That the operation of trawls of any kind
(beam, otter, paranzella and Danish) shall be
entirely prohibited at all times of the year within the reservation.

8. The gathering of edible seaweeds, mollusks and
echinoderms shall be limited for home consumption and subject to permit issued
by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

9. The gathering of commercial shells shall be
subject to the following regulations:

It shall be unlawful for any person to take,
sell, transfer or have in possession for any purpose whatsoever shells
or-valves smaller than the minimum sizes hereinbelow
described:

(a) Pinctada
maxhna (Jameson)—commonly
known as the goldlip pearl shell or “concha blanca“; nineteen
centimeters, maximum outside long axis measurement, taken at right angles to
the base. (See diagram)

(b) Pinctada margaritifera (Linneaus)—commonly known as the black-lip pearly shell or “concha negra“; eleven centimeters maximum outside long axis
measurement, taken at right angles to the base. (See diagram)

(c) Trochus niloticus Linneaus—commonly
known as the smooth top shell, “simong” or “trocha” smooth variety; eight centimeters across the
least diameter of the base, measured at right angles to the axis. (See diagram)

(d) Trochus noduliferus Lemarck—commonly known as “babae‘ or female and in the export trade as “hirose” shells; five centimeters across the least
diameter of the base, taken at right angles to the axis. (See diagram)

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(e) Turbo marmoratus
Linneaus—commonly known as green snail shell, turban shell, “lalong” or “bolalo“,
nine centimeters across the least diameter of the base, measured at right
angles to the axis. (See diagram)

Any undersized shell or valve removed from the
water through accident, or in ignorance of its size, shall be returned to the
water immediately without being opened; otherwise, the offender will be
penalized, in accordance with the provisions of the law and this Order, and
such offense shall be sufficient cause for the cancellation of the license.

10. Except for scientific
and educational purpose, or for propagation, it shall be unlawful to
take or catch fry except those prescribed in No. 3 of this regulation or fish
eggs of all forms of aquatic animals in the reservation.

11. That all technical installations such as
propagation and culture ponds, scientific instruments, live cages, etc, shall not be removed, destroyed or otherwise
tampered by any fisherman or individual within the reservation.

The words and terms used in this Proclamation
shall be construed as follows:

1. “Baklad” or fish
corral means a stationary weir or trap devised to intercept capture fish,
consisting of rows of stakes or bamboo, palma brava or other materials fenced with either split bamboo
nettings or wire nettings with one or more enclosures usually with easy entrance
but difficult exit, and with or without leaders to direct the fish to the
catching chambers or purse.

2. “Basnig“—originally,
a Visayan term for a conical or box-like bag net of sinamay
or cotton webbing, operated from an outrigger or motorboat as a huge dip-net
with the aid of light.

3. “Sapyaw“—a round-haul seine made of cotton netting, operating
from two boats with the aid of lights.

4. “Dayakos“—a sinamiay filter net operated in river mouths for
taking alamang (small shrimps)
and hipon (larger shrimps)
during flood tide. In Batangas and Laguna de Bay it also refers to beach seines
of sinamay or cotton webbing.

5. “Pante“—drift,
set, gill or entangling type of nets.

6. “Kawil“—handlines or drop lines operated with or without
lights.

7. “Pahila“—or
“sibid sibid“—a
troll line towed by an outrigger or motorboat.

8. “Kitang“—a
set long line with branching lines (gangings) each
provided with a hook.

9. “Pabahay” a
floating fish trap consisting of a semi-circular
enclosure of bamboo nettings, provided with a one-way entrance for fish and
buoyed up by bamboo raft: anchored at from 10 to 50 fathoms and operated
usually with a light in the evening.

10. “Salambao“—a
huge, lift net operated on a lower platform with or without the aid of light.

11. “Bintol“—a
small, shallow, square baited lift net for catching crabs.

12. “Bingwit“—a
general term for pole and line.

13. “Dala“—a general
term for cast net.

14. “Bumbon“—a fish
shelter made by tying or piling together bunches
of twigs-, bushes, branches of trees, shrubs, and anchoring these on a desired spot.

15. “Sakag” a
push net for taking shrimps and other shallow-water form of fish. It is either
made of sinamay or cotton netting mounted on
a collapsible, triangular frame.

16. “Largarete”
a set gill net of cotton twine hung like a curtain from an anchored banca by two bamboo poles attached fore and aft.

17. “Katigbi“—a
drive-in net made of a rectangular piece of fine-meshed cotton netting held by
two men. Fish are driven by a line of coconut or banana leaves strung along a
chain leadline.

18. “Pukot“—a
general term for various types of nets operated from the beach to deep water.
This includes pukot panggilid (beach seine), pukot panuliñgan and similar kinds of
pukot loot.

19. “Talacop” or
“kubkob“—a purse or stop seine, the capture being effected by enclosing, pursing
and/or impounding.

20. “Trawl”—any kind of bottom drag net pulled by
a motor vessel, either opened by a beam, a pair of otter
doors, or two towing vessels.

21. “Muro–ani“—a drive-in net made of coarse cotton webbing
and operated in submerged reefs. Fish are driven by divers each provided with
weighted rope and coconut leaf stringers.

22. “Spawning banak“—shall
mean mullets which are sexually mature and which carry ripe eggs and milt and
are making seaward migration for the purpose of breeding.

23. “Spawning sabalo“—shall
mean the breeder bangos which
carry ripe eggs and milt and are ready to spawn.

24. “Kawag–kawag“—are the fry of bañgos (Chanos chanos) measuring not more than 15 millimeters long.

25. “Aligasin“—shall
mean the fry and fingerling or young of mullets (banak)
belonging to the family Mugilidse.

26. “Siliniasi“—shall
mean the fry of herrings and sardines measuring less than three centimeters
long.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of
April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary