When am esteemed colleague in the profession, Atty. Rudy Lagoc, told yours truly sometime last year that a storm was brewing at the South-East Asian Fisheries Development Centre at Tigbauan, yours truly can only say "oh-oh." Rudy and yours truly are founding members of the Iloilo Legal Assistance Center, comprising a handful of legal practitioners who want to pick up the pieces left by the Free Legal Assistance Group of the martial law years that gave free legal assistance to political prisoners and victims of human rights violations in the years of the Marcos fascist regime. When he broached the issue to yours truly, my next reaction was that, if my memory was still right: "I have little sympathy for the scientists of the Seafdec.

Melliza, P. (2004, April 2-8). Seafdec scientists are opportunists. The Visayas Examiner, pp. 6, 10.