EO for TWG on fish price control signed

An executive order giving Bohol Provincial Governor Edgar M. Chatto blanket authority to create a Technical Working Group (TWG) which would be responsible for all areas concerning fish prices in the province was signed Friday.

For sometime now, high prices of fish in Bohol has been a major area of concern among all sectors, especially upon learning that our prices here are higher than those in other parts of the country.

Chatto made true what he has promised last week that he would prioritize this problem for it is already greatly affecting all sectors of our community and its effects are quite alarming.

The newly-signed EO gives the TWG the responsibility to segregate and classify all responsible agencies which would carry out the recommendations and implementations of rules and regulations either directly or indirectly affecting fish prices, thereby clearly pinpointing the who, the what, the where and the boundaries and parameters of each agency concerned; the identification of short, medium and long-term strategies and solutions; and to strictly monitor the proper implementation of the solutions as agreed upon by the body.

The governor has already called the attention and brought in all maritime and coastal agencies, the Local Government Units (LGUs), the police, the military, and even those in the judiciary, to give their respective agency’s contribution to help curb, and if possible, eliminate, this great dilemma of our municipal waters.

The experiences that Chatto has encountered in all the years of his political career has helped him a lot in formulating his own 10 Principles of Effective Law Enforcement which he strongly adheres to and which he has shared with his constituents and which he, consequently, expects all sectors to strictly follow and obey.

And since “high fish prices in the province is a glaring fact we need to address,” Chatto said, the governor is enjoining everybody to “show each one’s love and concern for our marine life and let it be known to the world that when it comes to solving problems, even though how difficult, the Boholanos is a rare breed every nation could emulate.” (jlv/EDCom)