Looking for ‘ludong’ in Abra River

SAN FERNANDO CITY—Tom Avelino Arcalas remembers that afternoon in November 1991 when the Abra River yielded bountiful “ludong,” the most expensive freshwater fish in the country that is endemic in the river. Arcalas, now 73, was born and lived all his life in Santa, a town in Ilocos Sur province traversed by the expansive Abra