What's all these preoccupation and fixation with galunggong? Just check out all the news stories and headlines coming from the mainstream media both television and print; it seems there is a national disaster in the level and magnitude of super typhoon “Yolanda” or the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. They are painting a picture that the natives are all angry and hungry and ready to troop to EDSA and bring the government of President Rodrigo Duterte down. All this because of a common fish the Tagalogs call galunggong or in English, the blue mackerel scad, round scad or short fin scad.

Buenaflor, L. M. Jr. (2018, September 5). What about galunggong?. Panay News, pp. 8, 15.