Tamang pangangalaga sa shrimp aquaculture farms itinutulak ng animal welfare group
Hindi dapat balewalain ang tamang pangangalaga sa mga hipon.
Ito ang iginiit ni Dinna Umengan, executive director ng Tambuyog Development Center, isang non-governmental organization na nagsusulong ng responsableng aquaculture sa bansa.
Ginawa ni Umengan ang panawagan kasabay nang paglulunsad ng Farmed Shrimp Welfare Campaign, na layon mabigyan ng kaukulang pansin ang kapakanan ng mga hayop, kasama na ang farmed aquatic animals gaya ng hipon.
“Although aquatic animal health and food safety issues of aquaculture have been subjected to certification and international compliance in international trade for years, aspects of animal welfare have not been adequately subjected to compliance or certification as part of the standards for Good Aquaculture Practices (GAqP),” dagdag pa ni Umengan.
Sinabi naman ni Vince Cinches, campaign manager ng Animals in Farming at World Animal Protection, kada taon halos 100 billion aquatic animals ang inaalagaan at hanggang tatlong trilyon naman ang nahuhuli sa karagatan.
Ito aniya dahilan kayat kinakailangan pangalagaan ng mga gobyerno gayundin ng mga negosyante ang mga aquatic animals sa pamamagitan ng mga batas at polisiya.
Pang-apat ang Pilipinas sa ‘top producers’ ng hipon sa buong mundo.
“While social protection or stakeholders’ concerns are being addressed, the welfare of the animal itself, and its considerable economic contribution has largely been relegated to the background. This has resulted in looking at shrimp essentially as products and not as animals. Overstocking is rampant, disease control, minimal, predation control almost non-existent and factored in as simple mortality. Often, only expensive spawners are given special treatment, while the marketable-sized shrimp are often condemned at harvest to a cold, frigid death, or death to exposure to heat on drained fishpond bottoms,” pagbabahagi naman ni Tambuyog aquaculture expert Dr. Ernesto Morales.
Kasabay nito, inilunsad ng Tambuyog Development Center ang kanilang Hipon Komiks, gayundin ang isang animanted video ng kuwento nina Mono Don at Vanna Mei, dalawang karakter na hango sa white leg shrimp at black tiger prawns, ang dalawang uri ng hipon na pinaka-popular sa buong mundo.
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