especially during these pandemic days. And, their source of livelihood becomes
more lesser to be equal to all the members of the family.
Source of violence is deficient
One out of three women in 80 countries have experienced physical and/or
sexual violence from their partner once in their lifetime (John et al., 2020). They
are vulnerable because they can‟t communicate with their peers and friends and
the unavailability of social services. This may also due to their lack of knowledge
with their rights as women. In this pandemic time, there are some changes
towards their personal perspective and directives such as stay at home order.
And, this stay at home order becomes a platform of increase risk of domestic
violence (Bettinger-Lopez & Bro, 2020).
One of the participants said about due to pandemic some fisherman
commits illegal fishing:
“Dili sila mag gamit ug mga iligal fishing sir para dili madaut
ang atong kinaiyahan sir sa dagat kay para ra man gihapon na
sa ilaha sir. Bahala ug gagmay ug kuha basta kuan lang sir
kanunay sir ba. Unya naa pirmenente.”
(They should not use illegal fishing sir so that the nature will not be
damage because it is for them. Even we get small catch, it is all
right as long as its constant. Always available.)
Finally, in my own analysis that though the violence is not co-existent in
Barangay Aplaya, but some of the fisherman used illegal fishing thus, fears among
women fisher folks that their husband indulging to use this illegal fishing just to have
more fishes to catch and even more a source of violence in the family. That is why the
government BFAR and with the help of the Local government created and conducted
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