The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has dismissed claims of a shortage in the supply of sardines in Western Mindanao. “We have sufficient supply as far as our region is concerned. We have nothing to be apprehensive about,” BFAR regional director Isidro Velayo Jr. told a forum yesterday, adding that there is no need to import sardines. “If ever there is shortage, we are involving our municipal fisherfolk where they can connect their supply to the canneries and not only from the commercial fishing,” he said.

Pareño, R.(2022, October 1). BFAR: No sardine supply shortage. Philippine Star, p. 8.