PD 704 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
100% VERIFIED
May 16, 1974 - ANSWER Date of enactment
FISHING, FISHERIES - ANSWER REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING ALL LAWS AND
DECREES AFFECTING __________ AND_________
To accelerate and promote the integrated development of the fishery industry and
maintain fishery resources in optimum productive condition through conservation and
protection. - ANSWER What is the declared policy of the State regarding fishery
resources?
By promoting and encouraging organization, providing assistance, and integrating the
activities of persons, associations, cooperatives, and corporations in the industry. -
ANSWER How does the government plan to support the fishery industry?
It is considered a preferred area of investment. - ANSWER What status is given to the
fishery industry in terms of investment?
The government encourages and promotes exportation to contribute to the national
economy's development and growth. - ANSWER What is the government's stance on the
exportation of fish and aquatic products?
The private sector must be an active participant and partner of the government in the
conservation and development of fishery resources. - ANSWER What is the basic
concept behind the private sector's privilege to utilize fishery resources?
Closed season - ANSWER Refers to the period during which fishing is prohibited in a
specified area or areas in Philippine waters, or to the period during which the catching
or gathering of specified species of fish or fishery/aquatic products or the use of
specified fishing gears to catch or gather fish or fishery/aquatic product is prohibited.
Commercial fishing - ANSWER Fishing for commercial purposes in waters more than
seven fathoms deep with the use of fishing boats more than three gross tons.
Electro fishing - ANSWER Means the use of electricity generated by dry-cell batteries,
electric generators or other sources of electric power to kill, stupefy, disable or render
unconscious fish or fishery/aquatic products in both fresh and salt water areas.
Family-size fishpond - ANSWER An area of fishpond that permits the efficient use of
labor and capital resources of a family to produce an income sufficient to meet a family's
need for food, clothing, shelter, health and education with reasonable reserves to
absorb yearly fluctuation in income.
,Fish and fishery/aquatic products - ANSWER Fish includes all fishes and other aquatic
animals, such as crustaceans (crabs, prawns, shrimps and lobsters), mollusks (clams,
mussles, scallops, oysters, snails and other shellfish). Fishery/aquatic products include
all other products of aquatic living resources in any form.
Fishing boat - ANSWER Includes all boats, such as bancas, sailboats, motor boats or
any other type of watercraft, whether licensed or not, used for fishing purposes:
Provided, That any such boat used for the purpose of transporting the fish in the course
of fishing operations shall be considered as a fishing boat.
Fish corral or "baclad" - ANSWER Means a stationary weir or trap devised to intercept
and capture fish, consisting of rows of stakes of bamboo, palma brava or other
materials fenced with split bamboo mattings or wire nettings with one or more
enclosures usually with easy entrance but difficult exit, and with or without leaders to
direct the fish to the catching chambers or purse.
Fish pen - ANSWER means fish enclosure made of closely-woven bamboo screens or
nets, or other materials attached to poles staked to the water bottom for the purpose of
growing and/or culture of fish to various sizes in both fresh and salt water areas.
Fishery - ANSWER Is the business of catching, taking, handling, marketing and
preserving fish or other fishery/aquatic products; the fishing grounds; and the right to
fish or take such products therefrom.
Fishery industry - ANSWER Includes fish produces, fish processors, fish traders, both
wholesalers and retailers, and owners of refrigerating and cold storage plants serving
the industry.
Fishing with the use of explosives - ANSWER Means the use of dynamite, other
explosives, or chemical compound that contains combustible elements or ingredients
that, upon ignition by friction, concussion, percussion, or detonation of all or parts of the
compound, kill, stupefy, disable or render unconscious any fish or fishery/aquatic
product. It shall also refer to the use of any other substance and/or device that causes
explosion capable of producing the said harmful effects on fish or fishery/aquatic
products.
Fishing with the use of obnoxious or poisonous substance - ANSWER Means the use of
any substance, plants, extracts or juice thereof, chemicals, whether in raw or
processed form, harmful or harmless to human beings, which kill, stupefy, disable, or
render unconscious fish or fishery/aquatic products.
, Fully developed fishpond - ANSWER A clean, leveled area enclosed with dikes at least
one foot higher than the highest flood water level in the locality and strong enough to
resist water pressure at the highest flood tide, and consisting at least of a nursery pond,
a transition pond, a rearing pond, or a combination of any or all of said classes of ponds,
and water control system.
Municipal and/or small-scale fishing - ANSWER Fishing utilizing fishing boats of the three
gross tons or less, or using gear not requiring the use of boats.
Municipal waters - ANSWER Include not only streams, lakes, and tidal waters included
within the municipality not being the subject of private ownership, and not comprised
within national parks, public forests, timber lands, forest reserves, or fishery reserves,
but also marine waters included between two lines drawn perpendicular to the general
coastline from points where the boundary lines of the municipality touch the sea at low
tide and a third line parallel with the general coastline and three nautical miles from
such coastline. Where two municipalities are so situated on the opposite shores that
there is less than six nautical miles of marine waters between them, the third line shall
be a line equi-distant from the opposite shores of the respective municipalities.
Disputes regarding jurisdiction over fresh water lakes not included within the limits of a
municipality or freshwater or tidal streams forming boundaries between municipalities,
shall be referred by the councils of the municipalities concerned to the provincial board.
Philippine waters - ANSWER Include all bodies of water within Philippine territory, such
as rivers, streams, creeks, brooks, ponds, swamps, lagoons, gulfs, bays and seas and
other bodies of water now existing, or which may hereafter exist in the provinces, cities,
and municipalities, municipal districts, and barrios; and the sea or fresh water around,
between and connecting each of the islands of the Philippine archipelago, irrespective
of its depth, breadth, length and dimension, and all other belonging to the Philippines by
historic or legal title, including the territorial sea, the seabed, the insular shelves and
other submarine areas over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction.
Refrigerating and cold storage plants - ANSWER Consist of a set of refrigerating
machinery housed in a building with cold storage compartments, for making ice and
freezing and storing fish and fishery/aquatic products exclusively for the fishery
industry.
100% VERIFIED
May 16, 1974 - ANSWER Date of enactment
FISHING, FISHERIES - ANSWER REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING ALL LAWS AND
DECREES AFFECTING __________ AND_________
To accelerate and promote the integrated development of the fishery industry and
maintain fishery resources in optimum productive condition through conservation and
protection. - ANSWER What is the declared policy of the State regarding fishery
resources?
By promoting and encouraging organization, providing assistance, and integrating the
activities of persons, associations, cooperatives, and corporations in the industry. -
ANSWER How does the government plan to support the fishery industry?
It is considered a preferred area of investment. - ANSWER What status is given to the
fishery industry in terms of investment?
The government encourages and promotes exportation to contribute to the national
economy's development and growth. - ANSWER What is the government's stance on the
exportation of fish and aquatic products?
The private sector must be an active participant and partner of the government in the
conservation and development of fishery resources. - ANSWER What is the basic
concept behind the private sector's privilege to utilize fishery resources?
Closed season - ANSWER Refers to the period during which fishing is prohibited in a
specified area or areas in Philippine waters, or to the period during which the catching
or gathering of specified species of fish or fishery/aquatic products or the use of
specified fishing gears to catch or gather fish or fishery/aquatic product is prohibited.
Commercial fishing - ANSWER Fishing for commercial purposes in waters more than
seven fathoms deep with the use of fishing boats more than three gross tons.
Electro fishing - ANSWER Means the use of electricity generated by dry-cell batteries,
electric generators or other sources of electric power to kill, stupefy, disable or render
unconscious fish or fishery/aquatic products in both fresh and salt water areas.
Family-size fishpond - ANSWER An area of fishpond that permits the efficient use of
labor and capital resources of a family to produce an income sufficient to meet a family's
need for food, clothing, shelter, health and education with reasonable reserves to
absorb yearly fluctuation in income.
,Fish and fishery/aquatic products - ANSWER Fish includes all fishes and other aquatic
animals, such as crustaceans (crabs, prawns, shrimps and lobsters), mollusks (clams,
mussles, scallops, oysters, snails and other shellfish). Fishery/aquatic products include
all other products of aquatic living resources in any form.
Fishing boat - ANSWER Includes all boats, such as bancas, sailboats, motor boats or
any other type of watercraft, whether licensed or not, used for fishing purposes:
Provided, That any such boat used for the purpose of transporting the fish in the course
of fishing operations shall be considered as a fishing boat.
Fish corral or "baclad" - ANSWER Means a stationary weir or trap devised to intercept
and capture fish, consisting of rows of stakes of bamboo, palma brava or other
materials fenced with split bamboo mattings or wire nettings with one or more
enclosures usually with easy entrance but difficult exit, and with or without leaders to
direct the fish to the catching chambers or purse.
Fish pen - ANSWER means fish enclosure made of closely-woven bamboo screens or
nets, or other materials attached to poles staked to the water bottom for the purpose of
growing and/or culture of fish to various sizes in both fresh and salt water areas.
Fishery - ANSWER Is the business of catching, taking, handling, marketing and
preserving fish or other fishery/aquatic products; the fishing grounds; and the right to
fish or take such products therefrom.
Fishery industry - ANSWER Includes fish produces, fish processors, fish traders, both
wholesalers and retailers, and owners of refrigerating and cold storage plants serving
the industry.
Fishing with the use of explosives - ANSWER Means the use of dynamite, other
explosives, or chemical compound that contains combustible elements or ingredients
that, upon ignition by friction, concussion, percussion, or detonation of all or parts of the
compound, kill, stupefy, disable or render unconscious any fish or fishery/aquatic
product. It shall also refer to the use of any other substance and/or device that causes
explosion capable of producing the said harmful effects on fish or fishery/aquatic
products.
Fishing with the use of obnoxious or poisonous substance - ANSWER Means the use of
any substance, plants, extracts or juice thereof, chemicals, whether in raw or
processed form, harmful or harmless to human beings, which kill, stupefy, disable, or
render unconscious fish or fishery/aquatic products.
, Fully developed fishpond - ANSWER A clean, leveled area enclosed with dikes at least
one foot higher than the highest flood water level in the locality and strong enough to
resist water pressure at the highest flood tide, and consisting at least of a nursery pond,
a transition pond, a rearing pond, or a combination of any or all of said classes of ponds,
and water control system.
Municipal and/or small-scale fishing - ANSWER Fishing utilizing fishing boats of the three
gross tons or less, or using gear not requiring the use of boats.
Municipal waters - ANSWER Include not only streams, lakes, and tidal waters included
within the municipality not being the subject of private ownership, and not comprised
within national parks, public forests, timber lands, forest reserves, or fishery reserves,
but also marine waters included between two lines drawn perpendicular to the general
coastline from points where the boundary lines of the municipality touch the sea at low
tide and a third line parallel with the general coastline and three nautical miles from
such coastline. Where two municipalities are so situated on the opposite shores that
there is less than six nautical miles of marine waters between them, the third line shall
be a line equi-distant from the opposite shores of the respective municipalities.
Disputes regarding jurisdiction over fresh water lakes not included within the limits of a
municipality or freshwater or tidal streams forming boundaries between municipalities,
shall be referred by the councils of the municipalities concerned to the provincial board.
Philippine waters - ANSWER Include all bodies of water within Philippine territory, such
as rivers, streams, creeks, brooks, ponds, swamps, lagoons, gulfs, bays and seas and
other bodies of water now existing, or which may hereafter exist in the provinces, cities,
and municipalities, municipal districts, and barrios; and the sea or fresh water around,
between and connecting each of the islands of the Philippine archipelago, irrespective
of its depth, breadth, length and dimension, and all other belonging to the Philippines by
historic or legal title, including the territorial sea, the seabed, the insular shelves and
other submarine areas over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction.
Refrigerating and cold storage plants - ANSWER Consist of a set of refrigerating
machinery housed in a building with cold storage compartments, for making ice and
freezing and storing fish and fishery/aquatic products exclusively for the fishery
industry.
