malaysiangTennis ace Alex Eala and muay thai champion Alyssa Kylie Mallari will lead 58 athletes from 33 sports to be honored at the 3rd Siklab Youth Sports Awards on Dec. 4 at the Market! Market! Activity Center in Taguig City. Eala and Mallari will receive the Go for Gold Siklab Young Heroes awards, along with world youth champion Prince Keil Delos Santos (weightlifting), Asian Championship junior silver medalist Karl Eldrew Yulo (gymnastics), Southeast Asian Games gold medalists Kira Ellis and Matthew Hermosa (aquathlon), Southeast Asian Games silver medalist Gennah Malapit (athletics), Ronel Suyom (boxing), Rianne Malixi (golf), Charlie Manzano and Breanna Labadan (gymnastics), Santino Luzuriaga (jiu-jitsu), and Bianca Bustamante (motorsports). Pole vaulter Ernest John ‘EJ’ Obiena, ranked No. 2 in the world and No. 1 in Asia, will receive the ‘Sports Idol’ award. The Youth Football League and the Davao Aguilas Football Club, which is supported by Quezon City 1st District Rep. Juan Carlos “Arjo” Atayde, will get a special citation, while swimmer Ariel Alegarbes will receive the Para Youth Star plum for winning two gold medals at the Asean Para Games in Cambodia last May. Meanwhile, sports patron Sen. Bong Go will also be recognized with the Godfather Award. The other awardees are world champions Joseph Anthony Godbout (modern pentathlon), pitcher Erica Arnaiz (softball), Jan Brix Ramiscal (muay thai), Asian Championships bronze medalist Jasmine Althea Ramilo (gymnastics), Lucho Aguilar (wrestling), Trisha Mae Del Rosario (obstacle sports) and Sebastian Niel Mañalac (karate), Burlington Super Kids Award; and Christian Gian Karlo Arca and Mark Jay Bacojo (chess), Aielle Aguilar, Princess Reuma and Yanna Marte (jiu-jitsu), Mazel Alegado (skateboarding) and Jodie Danielle Tan (fencing), Rising Stars Award. The Siklab Awards, organized by the Philippine Sports Commission – Philippine Olympic Committee Media Group, is for outstanding athletes aged 18 years and below. The first two editions were held in 2018 and 2019.
Source: Philippines News Agency
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will tighten inspections at fishing ports nationwide due to pending problems relating to the entry/exit of fishing vessels, according to a representative from the Directorate of Fisheries under the ministry.
The office said, by October 2023, the country had 83,427 fishing vessels with a length of 6 metres or more. Over 72,200 vessels had registered and updated data on the VNFisbase database.
About 11,210 vessels had not registered or updated data on the database, a decrease of 3,393 compared to December 2022 as they were damaged and no longer physically exist. Meanwhile, authorities reported they had granted some 84,125 licenses.
In 2023, there are 76 storm shelters for fishing vessels in 28 coastal provinces and cities. The number of those facilities has reached 48.63% of planned and can offer services to just 43.76% of the total number of fishing vessels in the country. This data reveals that the construction of storm shelters is slower than planned.
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cording to the directorate, the management of aquatic exploitation activities at fishing ports still has problems and difficulties, for example, understaffing at fishing ports, lack of database software on fishing ports, or improper connection between fishing ports. In addition, fishing port authorities fail to receive data from vessel monitoring system equipment installed on fishing vessels.
Moreover, the inspection and control of fishing vessels entering and leaving the port, crew members on vessels and seafood outputs face limitations.
To improve the management of aquatic exploitation activities at fishing ports, the office proposed to the ministry to provide investment capital to build and upgrade fishing ports and storm shelters.
It also suggested a pilot implementation of specialised fishing port models and seafood auctions at fishing ports to increase the value of fishing products.
It also calls for a database software that connects fishing ports, allowing them to share information to serve managem
ent and direction work.
Localities are urged to unify models for managing fishing ports according to the provisions of the Fisheries Law to ensure maximum efficiency of fishing ports and meet urgent requirements to remove the EC’s yellow card on Vietnamese seafood exports.
The directorate also emphasised the need to raise public awareness and engage the coastal community, relevant organisations and individuals to comply with legal regulations on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing./.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
