LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – “You can’t catch anything anymore, the water is dark and it smells very bad.” In his more than five decades of fishing, Rodrigo Guerrero, 77, recalled how abundant the sea was before the Albay Agro-Industrial Development Corporation (Alindeco) operated in 1976. “Back then, the livelihood in the sea was abundant. When you went to the sea, you wouldn’t come home without a catch. There was always a catch.” According to him, t…
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