MANILA, Philippines — A maritime expert said the government should enact strict laws to regulate the mining of the seabed, amid an increase in this activity which threatens the country's marine ecosystem. 'What is happening [now] is seabed mining but near [the] shore. And it's very destructive because it's … usually also where fishing grounds are,' Jay Batongbacal, director of the University of the Philippines' Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, told the Inquirer in a recent phone interview.

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