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This document summarizes seasonal ritual and regulation of fishing in Batanes Province, Philippines. It describes how each fisher belongs to a "vanua" or port, which is a specific spatial location and organized group led by the fisher chosen to make the first fishing trip. The ritual schedule governs use of fishing gears, thereby regulating fishing on traditional grounds. Through seasonal rites and organizing into cooperative associations with their clean vanua, the fishers call on ancestral spirits to brin

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