Dr. Nerissa Salayo, a socioeconomist of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department, answered: “It will likely take longer than we would expect. It could be beyond our lifetime. But for sure, if we succeed, we will leave a legacy to the fisherfolk of the future generations,” she said in a Seafdec/AQD news report written by Juliana Rose Pagador and Rex Delsar Dianala. Some fisherfolk got serious, but with a smile, they said, “So we’re dead already, but our children will benefit.”

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