COTABATO CITY: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BFAR–ARMM) has imposed a ban or closed season until March for fishing  “tamban”  or Indian sardine in the Sulu Sea and Basilan Strait.

The ban also includes the selling, buying and possessing of sardines caught within the conservation area, said  Jerusalem Abdulahim, chief of the BFAR–ARMM Fisheries Regulatory and Law Enforcement Division