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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 553
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 553
- AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 43 "PROVIDING FOR THE ACCELERATED
DEVELOPMENT OF THE FISHERY INDUSTRY OF THE PHILIPPINES," TO PROVIDE
EFFECTIVE MEANS TO INSURE THE SUPPLY OF FISH AND FISHERY/AQUATIC
PRODUCTS AT REASONABLE PRICES
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WHEREAS,
the effect of the recent calamities which befell the country tended to
raise the prices of the basic necessities of life including the price
of fish and fishery/aquatic products;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the price of fish, which is the major and cheapest source of
protein in the diet of our people, has escalated to a level beyond the
reach of the great mass of our people due to the destruction wrought
upon fishponds, fishpens and fish nurseries by the recent typhoons and
floods;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, unless measures are taken immediately and decisively to bring
the price of fish fry and fingerlings to reasonable levels, the price
of fish will continue to be high and beyond what our people can afford;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the price of "bangus" fry and fingerlings have, recently and
on several occasions in the past, risen to unreasonable level due to
monopolistic and speculative practices of certain sectors of the
industry;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, notwithstanding the high cost of "bangus" fry, the gatherers
thereof have not received their just and proportionate share in the
increment, because they have remained miserably paid for their labor —
the entire increment going, as it has always gone before, to the
concessionaires and middlemen; and
WHEREAS, it is the declared policy of the Government in the New Society
to spread the benefits accruing to any industry to all the sectors
thereof to hasten the narrowing of the gap between the rich and the
poor;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, hereby amend
Presidential Decree No. 43 by adding the following subparagraph to
paragraph B, section 6 thereof: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"19. PRESCRIBE AND COLLECT FEES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF
LICENSES OR PERMITS, WITH OR WITHOUT A DEFINITE AREA OF COVERAGE,
GRANTING FISHERY PRIVILEGES SUCH AS CULTURING, CAPTURE OR GATHERING OF
FISH OR FRY AND FINGERLINGS OR ANY SPECIE OF FISH, OR FISHERY/AQUATIC
PRODUCTS: PROVIDED, THAT, WHEN DUE TO DESTRUCTION WROUGHT UPON
FISHPONDS, FISHPENS OR FISH NURSERIES, BY TYPHOONS, FLOODS AND OTHER
FORTUITOUS EVENTS, OR DUE TO SPECULATION, MONOPOLISTIC AND OTHER
PERNICIOUS PRACTICES WHICH TEND TO CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL SHORTAGE OF FRY
AND/OR FINGERLING, THE SUPPLY OF FISH AND FISHERY/AQUATIC PRODUCTS CAN
REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW THE USUAL DEMAND THEREFOR AND THE
PRICE THEREOF, TO INCREASE, THE SECRETARY, UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF
THE DIRECTOR, IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO FIX A FAIR AND REASONABLE PRICE
FOR FRY AND FINGERLING OF ANY SPECIE OF FISH, AND, IN SO DOING AND WHEN
NECESSARY, FIX DIFFERENT PRICE LEVELS FOR VARIOUS AREAS OR REGIONS
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SUCH VARIABLE FACTORS AS AVAILABILITY,
ACCESSIBILITY TO TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES, PACKING AND CRATING:
PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT THE PRICE SO FIXED SHALL GUARANTEE THE
GATHERERS OF FRY A JUST AND EQUITABLE RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR: PROVIDED,
FINALLY, THAT ANY ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER OF SAID SECRETARY, FIXING SUCH
PRICE SHALL TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, THE PROVISION OF ANY LAW TO THE
CONTRARY NOTWITHSTANDING." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
This Decree shall take effect upon its promulgation.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-four.
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