Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol really needs to check on this. Documents reaching this writer showed that the bidding for the P2.1- billion Integrated Marine Environment Monitoring System or IMEMS of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources conducted last week might have been tainted with some anomaly. IMEMS is deemed necessary to check rampant illegal fishing in the territorial waters of the country, including the contested reefs, cays, sandbars and shoals in the Spratlys, and the areas in the West Pacific where Philippine-flagged vessels catch fish.

Manalo, C. V. (2018, November 8). Something's burning at the BFAR?. Manila Standard, pp. A4, A5.