UP Visayas graduates top fisheries licensure exams

Graduates of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) landed in the top 37 of the first Fisheries Technologists Licensure Examination given by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) last October.

Out of 215 examinees from 29 institutions, only 86 from nine schools passed.

Sixty of the successful examinees were graduates of the UPV College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

The new fisheries technologists from UPV thanked to the university administration headed by Chancellor Ida Siason for the excellent preparation prepared for them, including the offering of four PRC-required courses (Fundamentals of Aquaculture, Fundamentals of Capture Fisheries, Fundamentals of Postharvest Fisheries, and Fundamentals of Ecology and Management of Exploited Aquatic Resources and Ecosystems) which they had to take before the examination.

The top 10 examinees were Harold Monteclaro; Rex Ferdinand Traifalgar; Fernand Fagutao; Joseph Faisan; Michelle Buen Tumilba; Vonie Suarnaba; Cristin Genandoy, Rommel Guarin, and Aulynn Yue Sin; Shereen Acebedo and Liberty Napilan; Emil Castillo; and Allette Gayatin and Mary Ann Gomez.

UP Visayas is one of the six autonomous campuses of the UP System. The others are UP Diliman, UP Manila, UP Los Baños, UP Mindanao and UP Open University (based in Los Baños).

UP Visayas has four campuses – the main in Miag-ao, Iloilo; UP Iloilo in Iloilo City; UP Cebu College (UPCC) in Cebu City; and UP Tacloban College (UPTC) in Tacloban City, Leyte. – Rudy A. Fernandez