55 The provinces and cities within the autonomous region shall have priority rights to the utilization, development, conservation, and protection of the aforementioned offshore fishing grounds. The provinces and cities concerned shall provide support to subsistence fisherfolk through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production, marketing assistance, and other services. The Regional Assembly shall enact priority legislation to ensure that fish-workers shall receive a just share from their labor in the utilization, production, and development of marine and fishing resources. The Regional Assembly shall enact priority legislation to develop science, technology, and other disciplines for the protection and maintenance of aquatic and marine ecology. SEC. 25. Agriculture and Fisheries Bureau. – The Regional Assembly shall by law, create a Bureau on Agriculture and Fisheries and define its composition, powers and functions. Trade and Industry SEC. 26. Private Sector. – The Regional Government recognizes the private sector as the prime mover of trade, commerce, and industry. It shall encourage and support the building up of entrepreneurial capability in the autonomous region and shall recognize, promote, and protect cooperatives. SEC. 27. Cottage Industries. – The Regional Government shall promote and protect cottage industries by providing assistance such as marketing opportunities, financial support, tax incentives, appropriate and alternative technology and technical training to produce semi-finished and finished products. Deserving small and medium-scale cottage industries may be provided priority assistance. SEC. 28. Banks and Financial Institutions. – The Regional Government shall, subject to the supervision of the Bangko Sentral

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