The Supreme Court (SC) will resume today, Tuesday, the oral argument on the petition filed by the government, through the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), seeking to set aside a 2021 ruling issued by the Regional Trial Court of Malabon City,which declared the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) No. 266, unconstitutional. FAO No. 266 mandates fishing vessels to report their catches through a vessel monitoring system (VMS) and an electronic reporting system (ERS)in order to curbillegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUUF).

San Juan, J. R. (2023, November 21). SC to hear today fishing companies' arguments to stop implementation of IUUF, VMS measures. Business Mirror, p. A3.