Tañon Strait

Tañon Strait Atong Tañon.Atong Bantayan. Atong Ampingan. (Our Tañon.We Protect. We take care.)

The Tañon Strait is located in the Central Visayas, which is considered as the epicenter of global marine shorefish diversity with the “richest concentration of marine life on the entire planet” (Carpenter & Springer, 2005). It is one of the world's natural heritage and one of the country's rich fishing grounds. It was declared a “Protected Seascape by Presidential Proclamation 1234 by then Presid

ent Fidel V. Ramos in 1998 in due recognition of the extraordinary abundance and diverse assemblage of dolphins and whales and its known importance as feeding, breeding, and resting grounds for these marine mammals. It is mandated that all protected areas covered under the NIPAS Act of 1992 should have a General Management Plan (GMP).

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