Table 3. Customary Rules Covering the Ancestral Waters15 Allowed Prohibited 1. Passenger ships or public sea vessels 1. Big fishing boats as defined by Philippine law, illegal including fishing boats of non- Tagbanwa fishing boats, boats using illegal methods are allowed to pass through 2. Fishing boats of non-Tagbanwa are free 2. Projects or infrastructures to be managed by nonto fish except those using illegal methTagbanwa without proper consultation from the ods membership and agreement with the Council. 3. Non-Tagbanwa fishers are free to use 3. Non-Tagbanwa fishers to camp within the ancestral the reefs in an environment-friendly domain without permission from the Council. manner and based on what specified by Philippine law 4. Tagbanwas to culture seaweeds in la4. Cutting mangroves along the coast goons 5. Digging in the mangrove areas for baits 6. Fishing in sacred areas (panyaans), lagoons and sanctuaries 7. All big fishing boats, illegal fishing boats, illegal fishing paraphernalia, illegal fishing methods (pangulong, linteg or duldog, lampornas, hulbothulbot – Danish seine, aquarium, dynamite, sodium cyanide and others specified by law) 8. Three-ply nets 9. Fishing in lagoons and lakes 10. Catch small (juvenile) fishes except those of natural small size (Gunu - Silversides, Dilis - Anchovies, Kaluyang – shrimp 11. Catch whales, dolphins and sea cow 12. Build fish pens (baklad) especially in sanctuaries 13. Collect juvenile of Samung (Trochus sp.), Bulalo (Turbo sp.), Kiyay/Tipay (Pinctada sp.), and Biyagbiyag (Tectus sp.) 14. Disturb sacred places 21