Other participants coping strategies to help her husband, she claimed:
Bae? Wala. Bali sa onse kabouk ako anak, mananagat gyud na
ang duha. Bali abag-abag sa ilang papa ba. Mudoble sila. Katong
isa mao to ang naggraduate sa Holy Cross pero wala man kapaso
kay COVID man. Mao na siya nga nialalay pud siya manindira
para mapakaon tong mga gagmay. Ako pud kung example wala
sa dagat. Mukuan ko sa palengke, mubaligya-baligya ug isda ba.
Kanang magpa-adlaw gani. Sigi, adlawi nalang ko dira be. Ana
ba. At least naa jud tay wala sa dagat makarecover pud ta sa
atong kinabuhi ba. Maka-abag ba kung baga sa ako-ang bana.
(Girl. None. With my eleven children, two are fisherfolks. They
help their father. The other one graduated at Holy Cross but
that child did not attend the graduation ceremony because of
COVID. That’s why she helped in selling to feed the little ones.
Me, if there’s no catch. I go to the market and sell fish. That
work with daily pay. Yes, pay me once a day at your store. Like
that. At least we have something if we not went to the sea to
recover our livelihood. To help my husband.)
The need for the GO’s and NGO’s for Financial Support
Based from a national service and extension program under BFAR, the extension
aquaculture technology became a function of “generalists” agricultural technicians or ATs
under DA whose academic background may not be in fisheries as a result of a WB-IBRD
Structural Loan Agreement for those big organization and stable. With the passage of the
Local Government Code, these ATs were devolved to the local government.
Also, the NFARMC serve as an advisory or recommendatory body to the
Department of Agriculture in policy formulation and the preparation of the National
Fisheries Industry Development Plan. Thus, the Undersecretary of Agriculture chaired to
this policy formulation (presumably the Undersecretary for Fisheries) and its members
the Undersecretary of Interior and Local Government, including the five members
representing the fisherfolks and fishery workers, five members representing commercial
fishing, aquaculture and processing, two from the academe and one representative of