While most businesses in the agriculture sector are bracing for the negative impact of El Niño this year, the Fishery bureau and the sardine industry are banking on the warmer seas in the western Pacific Ocean to bring in more catch. "We were given the task by our central office to monitor this event," Ahadulla S. Sajili, director of the Fisheries Resource Management Program of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), said in an interview yesterday. He particularly noted that the 1998 El Niño episode did not significantly increase catch in the area.

Wee, D. T. (2010, February 2). Sardine industry banking on warmer seas to increase catch. BusinessWorld, p. S1/3.