It's not that he's afraid of it, but for Mayor Richard Garin hailing Seafdec to court for its failure to secure a permit from the municipal government of Guimbal is not so necessary. "We are aware of the long and tedious litigation process and we are not in a position to fight an institutional giant like you," said Garin in his letter to Dr. Rolando Platon, chief of Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center's (Seafdec) aquaculture department dated June 22.

Padilla, R. (1999, July 1). Garin wants no court battle versus Seafdec. Panay News, pp. 1, 6.