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To: Gauguin who wrote (37244)	9/5/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Tagalog. Spanish. English.

To: Gauguin who wrote (37244)	9/5/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Marine life here is often sea turtles, sometimes dolphins, often leaping fish of one sort or another. The sea horse project is on Bohol, down south; I've never seen the project but a friend of mine photographed it for a magazine article. The American woman running the project is apparently a bit on the loony side, but it seems to be working. The overfishing by the local villagers here is often indirectly caused by big commercial operations, which drag-trawl or drop-line huge expanses of reef into oblivion. There is so little left that the locals end up blasting just to catch enough to eat today (who cares about tomorrow, it probably won't come), or working for the Chinese outfits that sponsor the cyanide-fishing. Big mess, no easy solution. That good ol' government regulation would help, but the Philippine government isn't much good at that. 87 languages spoken in this country, I speak a measly 3 of them. Rudimentary English widespread; Spanish was once, but hard to find anyone under 60 that speaks it now. Where I am now, Tagalog and Zambal. Don't meet many criminals cruising the bay, mostly fishermen who can't figure me out. In the bays around the headlands north one might occasionally see smugglers, better ignored.