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    The document discusses several topics related to blue laws and environmental protection in the Philippines. It outlines the learning objectives of identifying blue laws in the Philippine legal landscape and applying them to environmental issues. It also discusses the Fisheries Code of 1998, which provides for the development, management, and conservation of fisheries and aquatic resources. The code aims to achieve food security and sustainable development of aquatic resources.

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    The document discusses several topics related to blue laws and environmental protection in the Philippines. It outlines the learning objectives of identifying blue laws in the Philippine legal landscape and applying them to environmental issues. It also discusses the Fisheries Code of 1998, which provides for the development, management, and conservation of fisheries and aquatic resources. The code aims to achieve food security and sustainable development of aquatic resources.

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    The document discusses several topics related to blue laws and environmental protection in the Philippines. It outlines the learning objectives of identifying blue laws in the Philippine legal landscape and applying them to environmental issues. It also discusses the Fisheries Code of 1998, which provides for the development, management, and conservation of fisheries and aquatic resources. The code aims to achieve food security and sustainable development of aquatic resources.

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    BLUE LAWS

    GROUP 2
    Learning Objectives:
     Identify the blue laws in Philippine legal landscape;
     Discuss the salient features of the blue laws and penal
    sanctions;
     Prepare a case digests on identified judicial decisions;
     Apply the blue laws to the identified environmental issues;
    LAUDATO SI
     Laudato Si is the first encyclical issued by Pope Francis in
    his papacy. Interestingly, he gives importance on our
    concern for our common home. Responding to the signs of
    the time, he saw that we need to take actions on the current
    situations of our common home.. He encourage us to
    participate by means of doing simple actions that will
    benefit our common home. Whatever harm that we can
    put on it, it will return to us because we are situated in one
    place, the Earth, our common home.
    The BLUE Environment

    FISHERIES CODE OF 1998


    R.A. 8550
    Approved on February 25, 1998 Providing for
    the development, management and
    conservation of the fisheries and aquatic
    resources.
    POLICY OBJECTIVE

    a. to achieve food security as the overriding


    consideration …in order to provide the food
    needs of the population.
    b. to limit access to the fishery and aquatic
    resources for the exclusive use and enjoyment
    of Filipinos;
     c. to ensure the rational and sustainable
    development, management and conservation of the
    fishery and aquatic resources in Philippine water
    including the EEZ
     d. to protect the rights of fisherfolk, especially of
    the local communities in the preferential use of the
    municipal waters.
     e. to provide support to the fishery sector, primarily to the
    municipal fisherfolk, women and youth sectors, through
    technology and research, post-harvest facilities, marketing
    and others.
     f. to manage fishery and aquatic resources, in a manner
    consistent with the concept of an Integrated Coastal Area
    Management (ICM
    g. to grant the private sector the privilege to
    utilize fishery resources under the basic
    concept that the grantee, licensee is an active
    par participant and partner of the Government
    in the sustainable development, management,
    conservation and protection of the aquatic
    resources of the country.
    APPLICATION

    All Philippine waters including other waters


    over which the Philippines has sovereignty and
    jurisdiction, and the country's 200-nautical
    mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and
    continental shelf;
    all aquatic and fishery resources whether
    inland, coastal or offshore fishing areas,
    including but not limited to fishponds, fish
    pens/cages;
    all lands devoted to aquaculture, or businesses
    and activities relating to fishery, whether
    private or public lands.
    Municipal Waters…
     Section 4(58) of RA 8550 defines municipal waters as those which
    “include not only streams, lakes, inland bodies of water and tidal
    waters within the municipality, which are not included within the
    protected areas as defined under Republic Act No. 7586 (the
    NIPAS Law), public forest, timber lands, forest reserves, or fishery
    reserves, but also marine waters included between two (2) lines
    drawn perpendicular to the general coastline from points where the
    boundary of the lines of the municipality touch the sea at low tide
    and a third line parallel with the general coastline including
    offshore islands and fifteen (15) kilometers from such coastline”.
     Where two (2) municipalities are so situated on
    opposite shores that there is less than thirty (30)
    kilometers of marine waters between them, the third
    line shall be equally distant from the opposite shore
    of the respective municipalities.

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