FISHERIES COURSE. Several students of fisheries join a training program on fiberglass boat construction in this undated photo in Currimao, Ilocos Norte. To encourage more students to take courses in fisheries, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is offering full scholarship grant to qualified students. (File photo by Leilanie Adriano)
LAOAG CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in the Ilocos Region is calling on qualified graduating high school students to take courses on fisheries and avail of full college scholarships from the government.
Vanessa Abegail Dagdagan, senior aquaculturist at the BFAR, said Tuesday that aspiring applicants must file their duly accomplished application forms with complete documentary requirements to the BFAR Regional Fisheries Office in Region, provincial offices, technological outreach stations, or to their respective Municipal Agriculture Offices not later than August 29, 2022.
The application form can be downloaded through this link: https://bit.ly/3e87DkU. The date of examination is on November 12, 2022.
BFAR’s scholarship program has three components. These include the Fisheries Industry Leader Grant (FILG) for high school graduates or Grade 12 students who belong to the Top 10 of their graduating class; the Fisherfolk Children Educational Grant (FCEG) for high school graduates whose parents are the so-called Mangingisdang Juan or are registered in the Juan Magsasaka Registration System; and the Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPS) which is intended for poor but deserving Alternative Learning System/high school/senior high school graduates/graduating students whose parents/guardians are members of a particular tribe recognized by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.
"The scholarship programs of BFAR are meant to help the students from families of fisherfolk to pursue their studies," said Dagdagan citing there are 20 available slots in the region.
For more information and inquiries, BFAR-1 can be reached by phone at (072)-242-1559/(072) -607-5115 or contact the following coordinators: May Ann L. Maningding (09178321117) and Derickson Chrisandrei S. Mandar (09288181030). (PNA)
