(From newsinfo.inquirer.net) Lucena City, Philippines – The good news is that the presence of the endangered fish species Napoleon wrasse has been confirmed in the seas off Polillo Islands in Quezon. The bad news: This rare fish is now being caught by illegal fishers.
Earlier, it apprehended three fishermen onboard two fishing boats in the act of dynamite fishing.
Trading of live tropical fish caught through illegal cyanide fishing is rampant in Polillo.