Ilang barko ng Pilipinas sa West Philippine Sea, muling nakaranas ng pangha-harass mula sa China
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00:00 The discovery of coral reefs that are of poor quality
00:05 was followed by the marine scientific research on Pagasa Island.
00:10 This is what Ryan Lesigas has to say.
00:12 As expected, the Philippines has once again experienced harassment from the Chinese ship.
00:22 This is in line with the marine scientific research on their sandy case on Pagasa Island.
00:28 It was passed on March 21, 2016, when the BRP Datu Sandai and BRP Datu Pagbuwaya
00:35 were released by the researchers from the UP Biology,
00:38 BIFARA, Philippine Coast Guard and National Fisheries Resources and Development Institute.
00:44 The BRP Datu Pagbuwaya and BRP Datu Sandai's partnership with the Chinese ship
00:50 lasted for a few minutes.
00:53 The Chinese Coast Guard, which has a bow number 5204, first appeared.
00:58 The two Philippine ships were forcibly blocked by the CCG.
01:02 It performed dangerous maneuvers.
01:05 But at the discard of the Philippine ships, they confused the CCG.
01:10 This is where the CCG seemed to be fooled by some more Chinese militias
01:15 through the sound of the siren.
01:18 This is where the 15 Chinese militia vessels that also performed dangerous maneuvers
01:24 did not go down.
01:26 The Chinese ships were only 100 meters away from the BRP Datu Sandai.
01:32 But the Philippine ships were still successful in diving the marine scientists from UP and BIFARA.
01:40 It is important for us to highlight the fact that the entire duration of the marine scientific research
01:46 conducted jointly by the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
01:50 have been done for more than four hours.
01:55 Despite of the presence and provocative action of Chinese Coast Guard vessels,
02:00 our BIFARA personnel, especially those sailors who are manning these vessels,
02:05 still was able to deal with them professionally and was not provoked
02:10 and did not end up being the result of a much more escalatory action coming from BIFARA.
02:18 In the initial results of the assessment,
02:20 the coral reef quality of the San Dikay 1 and 2 is not good.
02:25 The UP biologist, Dr. Jonathan Anticamara, said that
02:29 only small corals are around the San Dikay 1.
02:33 There are also big corals, but these are dead.
02:38 It is also noteworthy that only small fish are living in the area.
02:43 This is what experts are wondering,
02:45 since not that many fish are living in the area.
02:49 So overall what we found is that for both fish and corals,
02:52 there seems to be a suggestion that these reefs are not healthy anymore
02:57 because the dead corals and the few big fish, in fact the lack of big fish.
03:03 So in many of the reefs that I survey around the Philippines,
03:06 because I do national surveys,
03:08 when you see reefs that are lacking big fish,
03:12 typically this indicates overfishing.
03:15 Another thing that the expedition team noticed is the presence of dead corals in San Dikay 2.
03:20 Dr. Anticamara explained that it seems that the presence of corals is not natural.
03:26 They also noticed that the species of living corals around the sandbars
03:32 is not as active as the ones that are found in the sand.
03:36 This indicates that it might be from another place.
03:39 Those live corals that we saw that are foliose or kind of rose type underwater
03:45 are suddenly now covered in a massive pile of rubble.
03:51 Almost half of it is now covered.
03:53 This is not common.
03:55 If there's a wave that brings this rubble, let's say from the exposed area,
04:03 it will be a gentle, probably a gentle, not a sudden cut like the whole colony is cut into half,
04:10 one with a really tall cover of rubble, the other half is clean.
04:14 There's a sharp edge as if it's been put there.
04:19 According to the PCG,
04:21 one of the possible reasons for the unripe reef is the presence of a Chinese ship.
04:29 From here in the West Philippine Sea, Ryan Liziguez for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.