Fisheries Administrative Order No. 264, Series of 2020 regulating the Catching, Possession, Transporting, Selling, Trading and Exporting of Mangrove Crablets, Juvenile Mangrove Crabs and Gravid Mangrove Crabs (Scylla spp.).

This Fisheries Administrative Order regulates the Catching, Possession, Transporting, Selling, Trading and Exporting of Mangrove Crablets, Juvenile Mangrove Crabs and Gravid Mangrove Crabs (Scylla spp.). It establishes that the local government unit (LGU) through the Municipal or City Agriculture Office (M/CAO) in consultation with the Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Council (FARMCs), shall maintain a Registry of Mangrove Crablets Gatherers, Consolidators, Traders and Growers. Registered traders and growers shall only buy/collect mangrove crabs from gatherers registered under FishR and with license/permit from the LGU. In particular, it shall be unlawful for any person, association, cooperative, partnership or corporation to undertake the following activities: a) Catch, possess, transport, trade and sell mangrove crablets and mangrove crab juvenile, and mangrove crablets less than 12 centimeters CW from the wild; b) Catch, possess, transport, trade and sell gravid mangrove crab; c) Export of wild-sourced mangrove crablets and juvenile mangrove crabs; and d) Export of wild-sourced mangrove crabs breeders, spawners, eggs or fry as per provision of Section 104 of the amended Fisheries Code.