GLEAMING CATCH With its yellow scales, head, fins and tail, this golden “bangus” is an instant attraction at the research center of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Dagupan City. It was caught on Thursday at a fish cage in Sto. Tomas town, La Union province. —PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSENDO SO
The fish cage operator harvested the bangus grown under his care, the second attempt to catch it, said Westly Rosario, former chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources research center. Rosario said the fish’s golden scales, head, fins and tail are a deviation from the silver bangus and could have been due to albinism or abnormality in its pigmentation.
The golden bangus will join a 3-year-old fish of the same color in a pond at the BFAR research center. Both are the only known living golden bangus documented in the country.Rosario said the BFAR hoped to breed the rare bangus species but it would take about four more years before the new one, which is about a year old, will sexually mature.
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