Sagay Marine Reserve is preserve and maintain a highly productive, biologically diverse, ecologically balance marine ecosystem through a community-based management that will promote sustainable use of the resources.

At the end of the day, when the job is done, the question remains. Did the program made a difference in uplifting the status of living of our fishing communities?

One of the yardsticks of the program's success is data gathering of fish catch. This will measure the increase in average daily fish catch of a fisherman for the last two years.

In 1997, the average daily fish catch of a fisherman using sustainable methods was 3.27 kilos. Compare it to the average daily fish catch of 3.8 kilos recorded as of the year 1999, there was a substantial increase in a fisherman's daily fishing.