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Agoncillo, Batangas

Location It is located 120 km (74 mi south 74 mi) of Manila, a two hour drive via the , scenic route of Tagaytay Ridge and R. Diokno Highway. It is 32 km (19 mi) away from Batangas City the City, provincial capital. Bounded in the east by approximately 10 km (6 mi) lakeshore of Taal Lake, in the south by the municipality of San Nicolas, Lake, separated by Pansipit River on the west by the municipality of Lemery and on the north by the municipality of Laurel. Barangays

Adia Bagong Sikat Balangon Banyaga Bilibinwang Bangin Barigon Coral Na Munti Guitna Mabini Pamiga

Panhulan Pansipit Poblacion Pook San Jacinto San Teodoro Santa Cruz Santo Tomas Subic Ibaba Subic Ilaya

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Alitagtag

Location It is bordered on the north by ed Taal Lake, Cuenca and San Jose to the east, Santa Teresita and San Luis to the west and Bauan and San Pascual to the south.

Barangays

Balagbag Concepcion Concordia Dalipit East Dalipit West Dominador East Dominador West Munlawin Sur Munlawin Norte Muzon Primero

Muzon Segundo Pinagkurusan Ping-As Poblacion East Poblacion West San Jose Santa Cruz Tadlac San Juan

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Balayan

Location Bounded by Tuy on the north north; Calatagan and Lian on the west, Calaca on the east and the

Balayan Bay on the south which had a total of at least 100 km (38 mi). The town is rich among ). the natural resources of

sugarcanes, coconuts and corn. Significant events includes the Parada ng . Lechon (every June 24) and the Feast of Immaculate Conception celebra celebrated every December 8 of the year. Widely known products originating from the area include the Bagoong Balayan. Barangays Alayan Barangay Baclaran Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay 10 Barangay 11 Barangay 12 Calan Caloocan Calzada Canda Carenahan Caybunga Cayponce Dalig Dao
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Description | Chapter 3 Provincial Profile Dilao Gregorio Carcabuso Duhatan Durungao Gimalas Gumamela Lagnas Lanatan Langgangan Lucban Putol Lucban Pook Magabe Malalay Munting Tubig Navotas Patugo Palikpikan Pooc Pedro Bawit ambat Sampaga Rene Comia San Juan San Piro Santol Sukol Tactac Taludtod Tanggoy

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Balete

Barangays

Alangilan Calawit Looc Magapi Makina Malabanan Paligawan Palsara Poblacion Sala Sampalocan Solis San Sebastian

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Batangas City

Barangays Barangay 1 Barangay 2 Barangay 3 Barangay 4 Barangay 5 Barangay 6 Barangay 7 Barangay 8 Barangay 9 Barangay 10 Barangay 11 Barangay 12 Barangay 13 Barangay 14 Barangay 15 Barangay 16 Barangay 17 Barangay 18 Barangay 19 Barangay 20 Barangay 21 Barangay 22 Barangay 23 Barangay 24 Alangilan Balagtas Balete Banaba Center Banaba Kanluran
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Banaba Silangan Banaba Ibaba Bilogo Bolbok Bucal Calicanto Catandala Concepcion Conde Itaas Conde Labac Cumba Cuta Dalig Dela Paz Kanluran Dela Paz Pulot Aplaya Dela Paz Pulot Itaas Dumuclay Dumantay Gulod Itaas Gulod Labac Haligue Kanluran Haligue Silangan Ilijan Kumintang Ibaba Kumintang Ilaya Libjo Liponpon, Isla Verde Maapaz Mahabang Dahilig Mahabang Parang Mahacot Silangan Mahacot Kanluran Malalim Malibayo Malitam Maruclap Mabacong (Matuko) Pagkilatan Paharang Kanluran

Paharang Silangan Pallocan Kanluran Pallocan Silangan Pinamucan Ibaba Pinamucan Kanluran Pinamucan Silangan Sampaga San Agapito, Isla Verde San Agustin Kanluran, Isla Verde San Agustin Silangan, Isla Verde San Andres, Isla Verde San Antonio, Isla Verde San Isidro San Jose Sico San Miguel San Pedro Santa Clara Santa Rita Aplaya Santa Rita Karsada Santo Domingo Santo Nio Simlong Sirang Lupa Sorosoro Ibaba Sorosoro Ilaya Sorosoro Karsada Tabangao Aplaya Tabangao Ambulong Tabangao Dao Talahib Pandayan Talahib Payapa Talumpok Kanluran Talumpok Silangan Tingga Itaas Tingga Labak Tulo

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Bauan
Barangays

Alagao Aplaya As-Is Bagong Silang Baguilawa Balayong Barangay I (Pob.) Barangay II (Pob.) Barangay III (Pob.) Barangay IV (Pob.) angay Bolo Colvo Cupang Durungao Gulibay Inicbulan Locloc Magalang-Galang Malindig Manalupang Manghinao Proper Manghinao Uno New Danglayan Orense Pitugo Rizal Sampaguita San Agustin San Andres Proper San Andres Uno San Diego San Miguel San Pablo San Pedro San Roque San Teodoro San Vicente Santa Maria Santo Domingo Sinala

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Calaca
Barangays

Bagong Tubig Baclas Balimbing Bambang Barangay 1 (Pob.) Camastilisan Coral Ni Lopez (Sugod) Coral Ni Bacal Dacanlao Dila Niyugan Pantay Puting Bato West Puting Kahoy Puting Bato East Barangay 2 (Pob.) Barangay 3 (Pob.) Barangay 4 (Pob.) Barangay 5 (Pob.) Barangay 6 (Pob.) Bisaya Cahil Caluangan Calantas Loma Lumbang Calzada Lumbang Na Bata Lumbang Na Matanda Madalunot Makina Matipok Munting Coral Quisumbing Salong Sinisian Taklang Anak Talisay Tamayo Timbain Julao

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Calatagan

Barangays

Balagbag Bungahan Calumayin Dalipit East Dalipit West Dita Don Juan Emmanuel Ibabao Labac Pinagkaisahan San Felipe San Isidro Barangay 1 (Pob.) Barangay 2 (Pob.) Barangay 3 (Pob.) Barangay 4 (Pob.) Barangay 5 (Pob.) Barangay 6 (Pob.) Barangay 7 (Pob.) Barangay 8 (Pob.)

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Cuenca

Barangays Balagbag Bungahan Calumayin Dalipit East Dalipit West Dita Don Juan Emmanuel Ibabao Labac Pinagkaisahan San Felipe San Isidro Barangay 1 (Pob.) Barangay 2 (Pob.) Barangay 3 (Pob.)

Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay Barangay

4 5 6 7 8

(Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob. (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.)

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Ibaan

Barangays
Bago Balanga Bungahan Calamias Catandala Coliat Dayapan Lapu-lapu Lucsuhin Mabalor Malainin Palindan Pangao Panghayaan Poblacion Quilo

*Quilo Ilaya *Quilo Ibaba Sabang Salaban I Salaban II Matala Munting-Tubig San Agustin Sandalan Sto. Nio Talaibon Tulay

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Laurel

Barangays As-Is Balakilong Berinayan Bugaan East Bugaan West Buso-buso Dayap Itaas Gulod Leviste Molinete Niyugan Paliparan Barangay 1 (Pob.) Barangay 2 (Pob.) Barangay 3 (Pob.) Barangay 4 (Pob.) Barangay 5 (Pob.) San Gabriel San Gregorio San Maria Ticub

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Lemery

Barangays

Anak-Dagat Arumahan Ayao-iyao Bagong Sikat Bagong Pook Balanga Bukal Cahilan I Cahilan II Dayapan Dita: Gulod Lucky Maguihan Mahabang Dahilig Mahayahay

Maigsing Dahilig Maligaya Malinis Masalisi Mataas Na Bayan Matingain I Matingain II Mayasang Niugan Nonong Casto Palanas Payapa Ibaba Payapa Ilaya District I (Pob.) District II (Pob.)

District III (Pob.) District IV (Pob.) Rizal Sambal Ibaba Sambal Ilaya San Isidro Ibaba San Isidro Itaas Sangalang Sinisian East Sinisian West Talaga Tubigan Tubuan Wawa Ibaba Wawa Ilaya

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Lian

Barangays

Bagong Pook Balibago Binubusan Bungahan Cumba Humayingan Kapito Lumaniag Luyahan Malaruhatan

Matabungkay Barangay 1 or Bonbon(Pob.) Barangay 2 (Pob.) Barangay 3 (Pob.) Barangay 4 (Pob.) Barangay 5 or Tabok City (Pob.) Prenza Puting-Kahoy San Diego

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Lipa

Barangays

Adya Anilao Anilao-Labac Antipolo Del Norte Antipolo Del Sur Bagong Pook Balintawak Banaybanay Bolbok Bugtong na Pulo Bulacnin Bulaklakan Calamias Cumba Dagatan Duhatan Halang Inosluban Kayumanggi Labac Latag Lodlod Lumbang Mabini Malagonlong Malitlit Marawoy Mataas Na Lupa Munting Pulo
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Pagolingin Bata Pagolingin East Pagolingin West Pangao( entro,santacruz,kabilang tubig,ibaba,..) Pinagkawitan Pinagtongulan Plaridel Poblacion Barangay 1 Poblacion Barangay 2 Poblacion Barangay 3 Poblacion Barangay 4 Poblacion Barangay 5 Poblacion Barangay 6 Poblacion Barangay 7 Poblacion Barangay 8 Poblacion Barangay 9-A Poblacion Barangay 9 Poblacion Barangay 10 Poblacion Barangay 11 Poblacion Barangay 12 Pusil

Quezon Rizal Sabang Sampaguita San Benito San Carlos San Celestino San Francisco San Guillermo San Isidro (formerly Sapac) San Jose San Lucas San Salvador San Sebastian (Balagbag) Santo Nio Santo Toribio Sico Talisay Tambo Tangob Tanguay Tibig Tipacan

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Lobo

Barangays

Apar Balatbat Balibago Banalo Biga Bignay Calo Calumpit Fabrica Jaybanga Lagadlarin Mabilog Na Bundok Malabrigo Malalim Na Sanog Malapad Na Parang Masaguitsit Nagtaluntong Nagtoctoc Olo-olo Pinaghawanan Poblacion San Miguel San Nicolas Sawang Soloc Tayuman

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Mabini
Barangay

Barangays

Anilao Proper Anilao East Bagalangit Bulacan Calamias Estrella Gasang Laurel Ligaya Mainaga Mainit Majuben Malimatoc I Malimatoc II Nag-Iba Pilahan Poblacion Pulang Lupa Pulong Anahao Pulong Balibaguhan Pulong Niogan Saguing Sampaguita San Francisco San Jose San Juan

San Teodoro Santa Ana Santa Mesa Santo Nio Santo Tomas Solo Talaga Proper Talaga East

Malvar
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Bagong Pook Bilucao Bulihan San Gregorio Luta Del Norte Luta Del Sur Poblacion San Andres San Fernando San Isidro East San Juan San Pedro I San Pedro II San Pioquinto Santiago

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Mataas na Kahoy

Barangays

Barangay I (Pob.) Barangay II (Pob.) Barangay II-A (Pob.) A Barangay III (Pob.) Barangay IV (Pob.) Bayorbor Bubuyan Calingatan Kinalaglagan Loob Lumang Lipa Manggahan Nangkaan San Sebastian Santol Upa

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Nasugbu

Barangays

Aga Balaytigui Banilad Barangay 1 Barangay 2 Barangay 3 Barangay 4 Barangay 5 Barangay 6 Barangay 7 Barangay 8 Barangay 9 Barangay (Pob.) Barangay (Pob.) Barangay (Pob.) Bilaran Bucana Bulihan Bunducan Butucan Calo

(Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) (Pob.) 10 11 12

Calayo Catandaan Kaylaway Kayrilaw Cogunan Dayap Latag Looc Lumbangan Malapad Na Bato Mataas Na Pulo

Maugat Munting Indang Natipuan Pantalan Papaya Putat Reparo Talangan Tumalim Utod Wawa

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Padre Garcia

Barangays Banaba Banay-banay Bawi Bukal Castillo Cawongan Manggas Maugat East Maugat West Pansol Payapa Poblacion Quilo-quilo North Quilo-quilo South San Felipe San Miguel Tamak Tangob

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Rosario

Barangays

Alupay Antipolo Bagong Pook Balibago Bayawang Baybayin Bulihan Cahigam Calantas Colongan Itlugan Lumbangan Maalas-As Mabato Mabunga Macalamcam A Macalamcam B Malaya Maligaya Marilag Masaya Matamis (Malinao)

Mavalor Mayuro Namuco Namunga Natu Nasi Palakpak Pinagsibaan Barangay (Pob.) Barangay (Pob.) Barangay (Pob.) Barangay (Pob.)

A B C D

Barangay (Pob.) Putingkahoy Quilib Salao San Carlos San Ignacio San Isidro San Jose San Roque Santa Cruz Cr Timbugan Tiquiwan Leviste (Tubahan) Tulos

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San Jose

Barangays

Aguila Anus Aya Bagong Pook Balagtasin I Balagtasin II Banay-banay I Banay-banay II Bigain I Bigain II Calansayan Dagatan Don Luis Galamay-Amo Lalayat Lapolapo I Lapolapo II Lepute Lumil Natunuan

Palanca Pinagtung-Ulan Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Sabang Salaban Santo Cristo Mojon-Tampoy Taysan Tugtug Bigain South

I II III IV

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San Juan

Barangays

Abung Balagbag Barualte Bataan Buhay na Sapa Bulsa Calicanto Calitcalit Calubcub 1 Calubcub 2 Catmon Coloconto Escribano Hugom Imelda Janaojanao Laiya-Aplaya Laiya-Ibabao Libato Lipahan Mabalanoy Maraykit Muzon

Nagsaulay Palahanan 1 Palahanan 2 Palingowak Pinagbayanan Poblacion Poctol Pulangbato Putingbuhangin

Quipot Sampiro Sapangan Sico 1 Sico 2 Subukin Talahiban 1 Talahiban Ticalan

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San Luis

Barangays

Abiacao Bagong Tubig Balagtasin Balite Banoyo Boboy Bonliw Calumpang Calumpang East Dulangan North Dulangan South Durungao Locloc Luya Mahabang Parang Manggahan Muzon San Antonio

San Isidro San Jose San Martin Santa Monica Taliba Talon Tejero Tungal Poblacion

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San Nicolas

Barangays

Abelo Balete Baluk-baluk Bancoro Bangin Calangay Hipit Maabud North Maabud South Munlawin Pansipit Poblacion Santo Nio Sinturisan Tagudtod Talang Alas-as Pulang-Bato

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San Pascual

Barangays

Alalum Antipolo Balimbing Banaba Bayanan Danglayan Del Pilar Gelerang Kawayan Ilat North Ilat South Kaingin Laurel Malaking Pook Mataas Na Lupa Natunuan North Natunuan South Padre Castillo Palsahingin Pila

Poblacion Pook Ni Banal Pook Ni Kapitan Resplandor Sambat San Antonio San Mariano San Mateo Santa Elena Sto. Nino

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Santa Teresita

Barangays

Antipolo Bihis Burol Calayaan Calumala Cuta East Cuta West Irukan Pacifico Poblacion I Saimsim Sampa Sinipian Tambo Ibaba Tambo Ilaya Poblacion II Poblacion III

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Santo Tomas

Barangays

Barangay I (Pob.) Barangay II (Pob.) Barangay III (Pob.) Barangay IV (Pob.) San Agustin San Antonio San Bartolome San Felix San Fernando San Francisco San Isidro Norte San Isidro Sur San Joaqun San Jos San Juan San Luis San Miguel San Pablo

San Pedro San Rafael San Roque San Vicente Santa Ana Santa Anastacia Santa Clara Santa Cruz Santa Elena Santa Maria Santiago Santa Teresita

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Taal

Barangays

Apacay Balisong Bihis Bolbok Buli Butong Carasuche Cawit Caysasay Cubamba Cultihan Gahol Halang Iba Ilog Imamawo Ipil Luntal Mahabang Lodlod Niogan Pansol Poblacion 1 Poblacion 2 Poblacion 3 Poblacion 4

Poblacion 5 Poblacion 6 Poblacion 7 Poblacion 8 Poblacion 9 Poblacion 10 Poblacion 11 Poblacion 12 Poblacion 13 Poblacion 14 Pook Seiran Laguile Latag Tierra Alta Tulo Tatlong Maria

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In Taal, communities struggle to stave off disaster by Marlon Alexander S. Luistro Friday, June 6th, 2008 Share this story Last of three parts TALISAY and SAN NICOLAS, BATANGAS Being officially designated as a protected area failed to save Taal Lake from environmental degradation, and now some are saying even Environment Secretary Joselito Lito Atienzas defiant no fish cages stance for the lake will have the same result. Three-part PCIJ report on Taal Lake Illegal fish cage operations poison Taal Lake Legal loopholes, politics exacerbate Taals woes In Taal, communities struggle to stave off disaster

What may work, say scientists and activists alike, is close coordination and cooperation among all those who depend and benefit from the lake. And while they say vigilant monitoring is a must these days, ensuring that everyone understands the consequence of each ones action is crucial if the lake is to be kept from further deterioration. At the end of the day, it doesnt really matter whether Taal Lake (is) a protected area, observes environmental lawyer Ipat Luna. What matters is integrated management. People have to be convinced, she says, that when they obey the law and reduce their profits, there will be a public benefit that extends to them also. Taal Lake was declared a protected area in 1996 under the National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS) Act, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was put in charge of taking care of it. Yet scientists say the lake has become polluted and is now in the advanced stages of eutrophication, which can only mean more algal blooms or red tide. The lake already suffers from annual fish kills caused by red tide; there are also fears that some of the lakes endemic fish species are declining in number. Scientists have said that much of the lakes environmental problems are due to unregulated fish farming. As early as 2002, a study by the ASEAN Regional Center for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC) had pointed out that protected area management had become more complex and demanding. It was, the ARCBC said, no longer confined to protecting a site from illegal activities, but also now required the extraction of participation from the local communities.

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In 2003, a study conducted by agricultural economist Arvin Vista also suggested a community-based resource management policy (CBRM) as the solution to the Taal Lakes deteriorating water quality problem. This policy, wrote Vista, would recognize local fisherfolk as owners of the lakes resources, which are managed and equally shared among community members, who police themselves. Early last year, it seemed that the efforts to protect Taal Lake was finally headed toward that direction when the Taal Volcano Protected Landscape SCIENTISTS and environmental acitivsts say the Protected Areas zero fish cage proposal by environment secretary Management Board (TVPL Joselito Lito Atienza wont save Taal lake from PAMB) finished the unified further degradation. [photo courtesy of Balikas] rules and regulations for fisheries (URRF) for the 24,356-hectare body of water. The URRF aims to regulate the number of fish cages in the Taal Lake, designate fish- cage zones, prohibit destructive fishing methods, and enforce other rules pertinent to the lake conservation. These include a device against the palakasan system between the operators and municipal mayors by giving the TVPL-PAMB Executive Committee the final authority over fish cage permits. The TVPL-PAMB was able to put the URRF together only after a six-month consultation with various sectors affected by activities there. The policy-making body has 137 members in all. Its executive committee is made up of the DENR regional executive director, the provincial planning and development officer, the provincial tourism officer, mayors of 15 lakeside towns and cities, 10 barangay captains, and representatives from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), the nongovernmental group Pusod Inc., and a local organization of fisherfolk. Two-year phaseout But Atienza, who was appointed to his post several months after the URRF had already been prepared, has refused to sign it unless it makes clear that there will be no fish cages in Taal Lake after these are phased out, which he wants done within two years. I cannot approve the URRF in its original form because it only legalizes what is illegal, he told PCIJ in an interview, referring to the provision on regulating the number of fish cages in the lake.

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Indeed, technically, all the fish cages in Taal Lake are illegal because although some secured permits from local governments, not one of them has an environmental compliance certificate from the Environmental Management Bureau and a clearance from the TVPLPAMB that are required of all developments in protected areas. Apparently, though, the TVPL-PAMB has chosen to overlook this, and not necessarily because they all heartily approve of having fish cages in the lake. Says San Nicolas Mayor Epifanio Sandoval: While we have nothing against the secretarys measure to get rid of the cages in Taal Lake, we are asking him to set aside his plans now. We should rather focus our attention on regulating the fish cages while we are still looking for alternative jobs for the people. Sandoval was also among the 11 mayors who voted unanimously on a resolution asking Atienza to defer his plan to phase out fish cages within two years. The mayors say one only has to look at what had happened in the past, when authorities ordered the dismantling of fish cages, for one to reconsider an outright ban on these right away. In 1996, then President Fidel Ramos had ordered the dismantling and relocation of fish cages, fish pens, and other aquaculture structures in Taal Lake and Pansipit River. Ramos had said this was necessary to preserve the lakes endemic tawilis and maliputo. The order was followed, but it did not take long before the fish cages were back. According to the mayors, this was because the displaced fish cage operators had no other means of livelihood. In May 2006, the provincial government also issued a moratorium prohibiting the rehabilitation, repair, and construction of fish cages in the lake that had been damaged by Typhoon Caloy. This, too, was ignored. Last year, the Talisay Municipal Government prevent transport of bamboo, which is used fish cage operators themselves say they transporting the bamboo to the lake through established checkpoints in the town in order to to build the fish cages in the lake. But Talisay were able to build even more fish cages, fishing boats.

Even while were talking, people are building cages here because its their source of income, comments fish cage operator Vicente Llona. A 2004 study conducted by environmental science researcher Imelda de los Reyes of the University of Batangas showed that majority of the 569 fish cage operators interviewed consider the job as their primary source of livelihood. Most of the operators were high school graduates who were now supporting at least three family members. Only a few percent of them had other sources of income like hog and poultry-raising, running a sarisari store, and as drivers. BFAR meanwhile says that at least 145,000 individuals would be affected once the cages are removed. The count includes an estimated five family members assumed to be dependent on each of nearly 9,000 fish cage operators in Taal Lake. The URRF itself tries to avoid any form of intransigence from displaced fish cage owners and operators by giving them a year in which they can transfer their fish farms into the designated zones. 76 | P a g e

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BFAR Inland Fisheries Research Station Chief Leah Villanueva has also asked Atienza to give the URRF a chance. Villanueva, who chairs the PAMB Subcommittee on Fisheries, says, Within two years if nothing has changed and the water quality has worsened, then we would recommend removing all the fish cages in the lake. Regulating greed is key She thinks that the fish cages would no longer be harmful to the lake if only fish cage operators would follow the suggested stocking density per cage and feeding practices by the BFAR. When we regulate the fish cages, fish kills could be prevented and the water can now circulate freely in the area, she says. This is echoed by freshwater biologist Dr. Lourdes Castillo, who adds, Aquaculture as a technology is okay. Its the greed of people thats making it wrong. She also says that while unregulated fish cage operations are largely to blame for the lakes environmental woes, attention must be paid as well to other factors, among these activities in the surrounding watershed. Because the lake serves as the catch basin of waters drained from the watershed, any changes there would affect the water quality, quantity, and flow of the lake waters. Castillo warns against converting land areas beside the Taal Lake into residential sites, noting that massive deforestation of trees in the slope could cause soil erosion, bringing huge sediment loads in the rivers, streams, and lakes. In the meantime, Asis Perez, head of the green group Tanggol Kalikasan, says that no amount of effort from the DENR and BFAR to solve Taal Lakes problems will succeed without the participation of local governments. This is also true of the URRF, he says. The real challenge here, says Perez, an environmental lawyer, is how you can integrate all these interests, these valid concerns so that you can have a better lake, productive, and at the same time, not being deteriorated. Milagros Chavez, leader of the Kilusan ng Maliliit na mga Mangingisda sa Lawa ng Taal, which has been fighting for fish cage regulations in the lake since the 1990s, believes as well that any regulation in Taal Lake would be effective only if the BFAR, local governments, and fish cage operators coordinate in enforcing it. Earlier this month, Batangas Governor Vilma Santos-Recto announced her plans to start dismantling the estimated 1,200 abandoned fish cages in Taal Lake. She also said, (Any) plans for Taal Lake cannot be done overnight and the same is true with alternative livelihood. But to regulate (fish cage operations), we have to start already. The governor seemed disinclined to agree with Atienzas insistence of ridding the lake of fish cages entirely, commenting that the environment secretary was alarmed with the (condition of) Laguna de Bay. That was why he wanted a total dismantling (of cages). In fact, Atienza has said he would start working on Taal Lake as soon as he finishes rehabilitation activities in Laguna de Bay. Demolition of illegal fish cages began there last month. 77 | P a g e

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The environment secretary even threatened to file administrative charges at the Ombudsman against the local officials who would defy his order and allow fish cages to stay in the Taal Lake. Atienza said nobody could prevent the DENR anymore from rehabilitating the countrys rivers, lakes, and seas. Anybody who (tries will) have a problem, he said. LGU support needed Lawyer Luna, though, believes that the DENR would be able to remove the cages only if it gets the support of the local governments. At the very least, Protected Areas Superintendent Laudemir Salac seems to understand the need to involve local communities in protecting Taal Lake. He told PCIJ last year that he planned to ask the mayors of the 13 lakeside towns to assign a person from their municipality who could be trained and hired by the DENR as a full-time park ranger. Once this happens, he said, the DENR would have 13 additional protected area staff to help guard the whole 65,000-hectare Taal Volcano Protected Landscape (TVPL). At the time, the department had only five forest rangers to monitor the entire area with only one among them assigned full-time to the TVPL. Salac said he would request the local governments involved to pay the salaries of the new personnel until the DENR had generated sufficient income from entrance fees to be collected from visitors to Taal Volcano and Taal Lake. Years before, the interim PAMB had imposed an entrance fee of P10 for each visitor, but this was not really implemented due to the lack of staff. PCIJ asked Salac why the department was acting only now, when the lake was already polluted. His reply: Perhaps it was only now that the need was realized. Posted in: Governance, Health and Environment, Stories Tags: DENR, taal lake http://pcij.org/stories/in-taal-communities-struggle-to-stave-off-disaster/

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Talisay

Barangays

Aya Balas Banga Buco Caloocan Leynes Miranda Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay gay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Poblacion Barangay Quiling Sampaloc San Guillermo Santa Maria Tranca Tumaway

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Tanauan

Barangays

Altura Bata Altura Matanda Altura-South Ambulong Banadero Bagbag Bagumbayan Balele Banjo East (Bungkalot) Banjo West (Banjo Laurel) Bilog-bilog Boot Cale Darasa Pagaspas (Balokbalok) Gonzales Hidalgo Janopol Janopol Oriental Laurel Luyos Mabini Malaking Pulo Maria Paz Maugat Montaa (Ik-ik) Natatas Pantay Matanda
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Pantay Bata Poblacion Barangay 1 Poblacion Barangay 2 Poblacion Barangay 3 Poblacion Barangay 4 Poblacion Barangay 5 Poblacion Barangay 6 Poblacion Barangay 7 Sala Sambat San Jose Santol (Doa Jacoba Garcia) Santor Sulpoc Suplang Talaga Tinurik Trapiche Ulango Wawa

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Taysan

Barangays

Bacao Bilogo Bukal Dagatan Guinhawa Laurel Mabayabas Mahanadiong Mapulo Mataas Na Lupa Pag-Asa Panghayaan Pia Pinagbayanan Poblacion East Poblacion West San Isidro San Marcelino Sto. Nio Tilambo

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Tingloy

Barangays

Corona Gamao Makawayan Marikaban Papaya Pisa Barangay 13 (Poblacion 1) Barangay 14 (Poblacion 2) Barangay 15 (Poblacion 3) San Isidro San Jose San Juan San Pedro Santo Tomas Talahib

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Tuy

Barangays

Acle Bayudbud Bolboc (Maligas) Dalima Dao Guinhawa Lumbangan Luntal Magahis Malibu Mataywanac Palincaro Luna (Pob.) Burgos (Pob.) Rizal (Pob.) Rillo (Pob.) Putol Sabang San Jose San Jose (Putic) Talon Toong Tuyon-tuyon

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