At present, all that the provincial government can boast of is a concrete tank rearing over a thousand fry in a knee-deep water. But eight months from now, those tiny wiggling creatures will serve as brood stocks, the "power house" of Gov. Arthur Defensor's dream "to bring back the native catfish to the dining table of the Ilonggo. Defensor and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) in Tigbauan town had signed a memorandum of cooperation to revive the native catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) in Iloilo.

Iloilo aims to produce native pantat fry in 8-month time. (1999, October 13). Daily Informer, pp. B1, B4.