para el mar 2017

Most Outstanding MPA Network Finalist

Oriental Mindoro IMPACTS/BENEFITS KEY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Marine Protected • Re-establishment, expansion, and establishment
of new MPAs
The management practices adhere on
ecological criteria of permanence, replication,
representation, resilience, use of precautionary
• Updating of policies
Area and Fishery Law • Increase in budgetary allotment
approaches, viability, connectivity, economic
and social considerations, public education,
communication and awareness, compliance,
• Improved MPA management effectiveness
Enforcement Network • Increased awareness and improved biophysical
indicators
enforcement and impact monitoring,
use of available information, stakeholder
participation, political commitment,
• Influx of willing partners clearly defined objectives, use of adaptive
• Improved institutional arrangements approaches and an integrated framework in
the form of the VIP Framework Plan in order
• Establishment of a new 300,000 ha fisheries
to ensure the maximum contribution of
management area in Oriental Mindoro as its
AREA individual MPAs to the VIP Network.
contribution to conservation of the Verde Island
6,486.65 ha of critical habitats (166.22 ha of mangroves, Passage (VIP) Marine Conservation Corridor and
145.4 ha of seagrass and 6,174.1 ha of coral reef) the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion.
HABITAT TYPES ISSUES AND THREATS
Mangroves, seagrass, estuarine, and coral reefs • Encroaching deep water blast fishers from
Tayabas Bay
ESTABLISHED IN 2009 • Need for stringent performance monitoring of
nationally funded conservation projects
Executive Order 578 “Establishing the National Policy on
Biological Diversity, Prescribing its Implementation throughout • Political intervention on fishery law enforcement
the Country, Particularly in the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion • How to upgrade Bantay Dagat incentives
and the Verde Island Passage Marine Conservation Corridor”
• What to do with reefs that are not recovering
due to poor recruitment and survival
MANAGEMENT BODY
Fifteen (15) Local Government Units (14 municipalities and 1 city), under RECOMMENDATIONS
the guidance of the Provincial CRM and Fisheries Division, which also serves
• Sustain IEC
as the Secretariat. A Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force was created by
virtue of Executive Orcer No. 009 -2009 under the guidance of the Provincial • Involve national government agencies to setup
Agriculture Office thru the Fishery and Coastal Resource Management fishery management regimes in national waters
Division to address MPA and fishery law enforcement concerns • Establish more sustainable use zones like hook
and line areas
FLORA AND FAUNA • Expand representative protected zones for
• 750+ species of nudibranchs mangrove, wetlands, and subtidal seagrasses
• 359+ species of corals
• 1000+ fish species
• 75 new species of deep water invertebrates
• 10 species of true mangroves Contact Oriental Mindoro Marine Protected Area and
• 8 species of seagrasses Fishery Law Enforcement Network through:
• 3 species of marine turtles Rhodora Emilia Ramiento
Agricultural Technologist, Provincial Agriculture Office
• 9 species of marine mammals Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro
rhodora.ramiento@gmail.com
09178528702