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| | Balancing Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability In the Lingayen Gulf |
 | | With the massive exploitation of the Lingayen Gulf by commercial fisheries, artisan fishers and peasants who depend on the Gulf to provide food for themselves and their family are struggling to compete for marine resources, resorting to Malthusian overfishing (Dayton, et al. |
 | | The Lingayen Gulf suffers from microbial contamination (from untreated sewage), fertilizer and pesticide runoff, mining waste, siltation, industrial and municipal waste water discharge, and solid wastes that are adversely affecting the reef system (Guarin, 1991; Soegiarto, 1994). |
 | | The situation in the Lingayen Gulf is so complex that there cannot be a single source of the problems that were presented in the technological aspects portion of this report. |
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