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==[[Zamboanga Sibugay News]]==
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'''Zambo Peninsula 2011 fisheries production down by 18.18%'''
'''Abducted Australian pleads for life'''
*Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/9853-zambo-peninsula-2011-fisheries-production-down-by-1818.html
*Source: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/abducted-australian-pleads-for-life-20120505-1y5qw.html
*Saturday, May 5, 2012
*Sunday, May 6, 2012
:By PNA/PIA9-ZBST
:By Lindsay Murdoch and Al Jacinto




The fisheries production of Zamboanga Peninsula or Region-9 for the year 2011 has registered an 18.18 percent decrease compared to that in 2010, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported Thursday.  
A NEW proof-of-life video shows Sydney adventurer Warren Rodwell looking gaunt and making a desperate plea for a ransom to save his life after more than four months in captivity in the Philippines.
Ron Masling, an Australian acquaintance of Mr Rodwell who obtained the video, says the kidnappers have set a four-week deadline to be paid or they will behead him.
"They [the kidnappers] have given one month more before he is finished," Mr Masling told The Sunday Age by telephone from the Philippines, where he has been living for several years.


NSCB Regional Director Mewchun Pamaran, citing data from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), said this came about as the commercial, municipal and aquaculture fishery sectors have registered a downward trend in production last year compared to that in the previous year.  
However, Australian officials are angry that a Filipino man linked to Mr Masling contacted the kidnappers and obtained the four-minute video during which Mr Rodwell is seen holding a copy of the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper dated March 26.
Pamaran said the fish production by commercial fishermen last year was lower by 125,314.52 MT from 339,750.97 metric tons (MT) in 2010 to 214,436.45 MT in 2011.
The Department of Foreign Affairs declined to comment.
 
Mr Masling, 57, of Canberra, is attempting to sell the video to the Australian media for thousands of dollars, saying his efforts to help Mr Rodwell have used up all his pension money.
Pamaran said three areas namely the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga City have registered production shortfall in commercial fisheries, which constitute about 34.6 percent to the total fishery production in the region.
Grave fears are held for Mr Rodwell, who was abducted on December 5 from his fortified home in the seaside town of Ipil on troubled Mindanao Island by four gunmen posing as police. Philippine authorities say that since the video was made Mr Rodwell has become frail and weak as he has been constantly moved between remote hideouts of the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group, which has now dropped its original ransom demand from $2 million to $460,000.
 
Both the Australian and Philippine governments have policies not to pay ransoms.
The commercial fishery data of the three areas are as follows: Zamboanga del Norte went down by 1,036.54 MT from 20,999.20 in 2010 to 19,962.66 in 2011; Zamboanga del Sur decreased by 2,516.39 MT to 31,622.48 MT in 2011 from 34,138.87 in 2010; and, Zamboanga City was lesser by 117,213.84 MT to 158,473.97 MT in 2011 from 275,687.81 MT in 2010.
In the video, the second sent by the kidnappers, Mr Rodwell pleads for his family, the Australian Prime Minister and Australians to raise the money.
 
Philippine security forces have moved a massive hunt for the kidnappers to the island of Basilan, an Abu Sayyaf stronghold, after intelligence reports indicated he was taken back there in recent days after being held for weeks in hideouts on the nearby Zamboanga Peninsula.
Pamaran said the decrease in the commercial fishery production was largely attributed to lesser number of fishing activities and number of unloading due to weather disturbances that occurred during the period.
Philippine troops have had several firefights with Abu Sayyaf terrorists this year despite efforts to negotiate Mr Rodwell's release.
 
Zamboanga Sibugay governor Rommel Jalosjos said the kidnappers were now demanding 20 million pesos ($A460,000) for the release of Mr Rodwell, whose 27-year-old Filipina wife Miraflor Gutang says she does not have the money to pay.
The total production for municipal fishery, which accounts for 20.8 percent of the region's total fisheries production, was pegged at 129,037.87 MT in 2011 or lower by 7,028.94 MT compared to that in 2010 production of 136,066.81 MT, Pamaran said.  
Mr Jalosjos declined to say if he was in contact with the kidnappers.
All of the areas in the region--Zamboanga City, and the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay--have marked a downward trend in municipal fishery production in 2011 compared to that in the previous year.  
Mr Masling, who has been unable to sell the video to the media, claimed Australian authorities had done little to help Mr Rodwell.
 
However, it is known Australian officials have been supporting efforts to secure Mr Rodwell's release.
Of the four areas, Zamboanga del Norte registered the highest municipal fishery production shortfall of 3,289.45 MT to 37,061.47 MT in 2011 from 40,350.92 MT in 2010.  
Mr Masling claimed that Australian officials in Manila had told him his life was in danger and that he should leave the Philippines immediately. But he said he was not leaving. "Where I grew up you don't leave your mates behind."
 
The municipal fishery production of the other areas in the region are: Zamboanga del Sur down by 2,634.64 MT from 25,677.22 MT in 2010 to 23,042.58 MT in 2011; Zamboanga City marked a decrease of 698.69 MT from 42,225.15 MT in 2010 to 41,526.46 MT in 2011; and, Zamboanga Sibugay lesser by 406.16 MT to 27,407.36 MT in 2011 from 27,813.52 in 2011.  
 
Pamaran said that the region's aquaculture production also exhibited a downward trend though three areas in the region namely Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Norte provinces and Zamboanga City registered an increase in production.  
 
In totality, Pamaran said the region's aquaculture production is lesser by 5,315.76 MT from 281,398.42 MT in 2010 to 276,082.66 MT last year since the increase in the production of the three areas were not sufficient to offset the shortfall of Zamboanga del Sur that reached 10,838.52 MT.  
Last year's aquaculture production of Zamboanga del Sur went down to 44,297.36 MT from 55,135.88 MT in 2010.  
 
The aquaculture production of the three areas that marked an increase are as follows: Zamboanga Sibugay marked an increase of 3,068.64 MT from 132,581.82 in 2010 to 135,650.46 MT in 2011; Zamboanga City went up by 2,058.41 MT to 62,064.87 MT in 2011 from 60,006.46 MT in 2010; and Zamboanga del Norte increased by 395.73 MT to 34,069.98 MT in 2011 from 33,674.25 MT in 2010.
Aquaculture accounted for about 44.6 percent of the total fisheries production of the region.  
 
Meanwhile, Pamaran said the seaweed farmers have produced 254,521.10 metric tons last year which is lower by 3,610.2 MT compared to the previous year's production of 258,131.30 MT.


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