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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''Leyte allocates P300K to combat crown of thorns starfish explosion'''
'''Southern Leyte enjoins full participation of LGUs in Earth Hour power switch off'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281331539444
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281331692555
*Tuesday 13th of March 2012
*Wednesday 14th of March 2012
:by Erna S. Gorne
:by Erna S. Gorne






MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 13 (PIA)  --  The Southern Leyte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) allocated  P 300,000 for the acquisition of  spear guns that would get rid of the crown of thorns starfish (COTS) multiplying out of control throughout the province.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 14  (PIA)  --  The provincial government of Southern Leyte will closely coordinate with the 19 local government units in the province to assure full participation in the synchronized one hour electric power switch-off.
Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENR) senior staff Eva Abad disclosed to PIA-Maasin about the switching off of electric power from  8:30 p.m. up to 9:30 p.m. of March 13, 2012 in observance of the Earth Hour simultaneously throughout the province.
“The provincial government considered the overpopulation of COTS as a natural disaster that threatens the marine life in the province,“ Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Management Office (PENRMO) - Coastal Fisheries Resource Management Office (CFRMO) Eva Abad reported to PIA.
“The local chief executives were all advised formally through the issuance of a memorandum from Provincial Governor Damian Mercado’s office relative to the energy conservation measures which shall also be observed at the same time throughout the world,”  Abad said.
The memorandum further urged the provincial and city employees to participate as they were recommended to act as models in the community in the switch off of electricity during the designated schedule in their respective homes, she added.
“These equipment are needed to inject sodium bisulfate into the COTS located in the deep seas, to kill them,”  she said.
On the same day, the provincial government will also spearhead in the synchronized extraction of the crown of thorns starfish (COTS) throughout the province.  Other simultaneous massive collection of COTS scheduled activities will be on March 15-22 during the World Water Way observation and the Earth Day celebration on April 22, she said. (PIA8 SoLeyte)
   
 
On the other hand, COTS found along the shallow waters can be manually extracted with the use of bamboo sticks; however, it should be done with technical guidance, Abad said.
Abad reported that COTS teem in Padre Burgos where a number of divers extracted some 60,000 COTs at one time, while along the shorelines of Barangay Mantahan, Maasin City thousands of COTS were also exterminated.
Meanwhile, the provincial government will spearheaded at least three major initiatives of COTS massive extraction: on March 15-22 in time for the World Water Day celebration, on March 31 during the Earth Hour observation,  and another synchronized COTS collection on April 22 throughout the province, Abad disclosed.
The Sogod Bay Sustainable Marine Management Alliance (SBSMMA) will work together in the combat of excessive growth of COTS to include the provision of reading materials for wider information dissemination about the problem, Abad said. (PIA8 SoLeyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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