You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” goes a popular saying in management circles. For our country’s fisheries, this can be a particularly dangerous thing. There is growing recognition that the “blue economy” — the resources, goods, and services associated with our marine and coastal resources and inland waters — merits far more attention. This is particularly true in an archipelagic country like ours, where a mere one-fifth of our territory is land, and about four-fifths is water, with all the resources it contains.

Habito, C. F. (2021, March 30). Watch how we fish. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A8.