Profile updated on 15 September 2021

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

IDENTIFICATION

SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)

Sardinella lemuru

SPECIES NAME(s)

Bali sardinella

COMMON NAMES

Indian Sardines, Tamban

Bali sardinella is a coastal small pelagic, schooling, strongly migratory species that inhabit tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region (Whitehead 1985). Bali sardinella, Sardinella lemuru, was previously reported as S. longiceps in the Philippines (PSA 2019), (Williams and Willette 2011). The stock structure for Bali sardinella in the Philippines is unknown. This profile covers the Bali sardinella fishery in the Philippines Fishery Management Area 10 (FMA - 10), covering the waters in the Cebu region.  FMAs were established in January 2019 (Fisheries Administrative Order 263) to focus on the ecosystem approach to fisheries management.  FMA - 10 includes the waters along the eastern and southeastern side of Cebu, to include Biliran Strait and Ormoc Strait in the northeast, Camotes Sea, Danajon Bank, Cebu  Strait/Bohol Strait, western Bohol Sea  (see FMA 10 Map and Profile).

In the Philippine Statistics Authority or PSA, production volume is reported as Bali sardinella  (tamban)  (see OpenSTAT).  The local name "tamban", however, is applied to Bali sardinella S. lemuru and at least 8 other sardine species to include five Sardinella spp.  (e.g.,   White sardinella,  S. albella;  Fringescale sardinella,  S. fimbriata; Goldstripe sardinella,   S. gibbosa;  Taiwan sardinella,  S. hualiensis, and Blacktip sardinella, S. melanura) and  three Amblygaster spp.  (e.g., Bleeker smoothbelly sardinella,   A. clupeoides;  Smoothbelly sardinella,   A. leiogaster, Spotted sardinella,  A. sirm)   (see FishBase (Froese and Pauly 2021); (Williams and Willette 2011).   Other local names for this species are "tunsoy" (Williams and Willette 2011).  In NSAP’s The Philippine Capture Fisheries Atlas several clupeid sardines share common names but are presented separately in areas where stock assessments occur (e.g., (Barut et al. 2017).  Catch landing data of both species, however, are aggregated with other species under the “small pelagics” group (Santos et al. 2017).


ANALYSIS

Strengths
  • A National sardine management plan (NSMP 2020-2025) to improve the sardine production sector, both at the commercial and municipal level in the Philippines is currently in place.

SCORES

Management Quality:

Management Strategy:

≥ 6

Managers Compliance:

< 6

Fishers Compliance:

< 6