A young man fishes off of the coastline of Dulangan, a fishing village in Oriental Mindoro. Oriental Mindoro is taking active steps to effectively manage their marine resources, with the implementation of a 3-month seasonal fishing ban for the past few years that prohibits commercial fishing boats from fishing in the municipal waters that lie within 10 kilometres from the coast, but permits subsistence fishermen, who fish to feed their families. Even after only a few years the program is already seeing positive results: local fish markets teem with fish during the seasonal closure period, and the municipal waters' biomass is already starting to increase. Oriental Mindoro supplements this program with proper management of its various marine protected areas (MPAs), effectively preventing most illegal fishing, which has won the province various awards over the years.