Laws are in place to apprehend illegal fishing in northern Palawan, Linapacan and the Calamean Islands group, However law enforcement has not been effectively implemented by local authorities or funded by regional governments, and the problem continues.

Palawan Environmental sited the most vulnerable areas for alternative income in 2009 and local Barangay have responding enthusiastically to establishing the development of managed eco- ethno- and adventure-tourism through those territories. Caril Ridley