Fish kill in Batangas

I don't know where to start my post, since I forgot the day when the fish kill in Taal, Batangas started. Batangas is in the southern part of Luzon. It is also very near Tagaytay, one of the tourists spots here in the Philippines. While I was typing this post, I'm also viewing a television and seeing some of the fisherman's families narrating the difficulties on their livelihood caused by this fish kill. According to one of the fisherman's wives who lived near the Taal Lake, she had seven kids. One of her children stopped going to school after the fish kill because her husband had the difficulty to catch fish and this affects their daily lives. I wasn't able to buy school supplies for one of my son, so she was force to stop. I sold what my husband catches every time he goes out fishing but what will I sell if he goes home empty, said the fisherman's wives. We sometimes experienced eating once a day instead of three, she added. Her husband also said that catching fish before is so easy but after the fish kill caused by crowded fish pins installed by businessman, she can't easily catches fish. Added to his problem is the fact that if he catches fish, nobody buys it because customers tend to think that fishes came from the fish kill. And that's why he keeps on saying that he hopes that no one of his children will inherit his job, being a fisherman. Then another head of the family was also been narrating that he is also a fisherman and at the same time raises horses to earn a living. He said we use our horses for his “horse riding business". Most of our customers are foreigners and we were given tokens if they were contented of our service. With this fish kill customers didn't come here anymore to relax and have fun so we are force to spend our savings and we we're not quite sure yet when they are coming again. The fish kill incident didn’t only affect the lives of the people nearby having a living by the lake but also the lives of different species living in the water. Sometimes we never felt the signs when to stop our greediness and being abusive to our mother nature until we realize that everything we have, were already wash out. And it was estimated to at least one hundred forty eight million pesos was damaged by the fish kill. Government agencies had already acted to this problem.