Browsing by Author "Cinco, Maricar"

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    • Du30: PH, China, 'neutral' state to probe hit-and-run 

      Salaverria, Leila B.; Aning, Jerome; Cinco, Maricar; Virola, Madonna T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 23, 2019, on page A1-A6)
      President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted China’s proposal for a joint investigation of the June 9 incident near Recto Bank in the South China Sea where a Chinese trawler rammed and sank a Philippine fishing boat and then ...

    • Duhol matapang,' another Taal Lake resident, threatened by extinction 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 4, 2019, on page A10)
      A sea snake seen only in Taal Lake may find itself treading the path to extinction, like the “tawilis,” unless actions are taken to address its dwindling population, conservationists said. Since 2009, the “duhol matapang” ...

    • Fish cages crowding Laguna's Sampaloc Lake next targey on LLDA demolition list 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 2, 2017, on page A16)
      The government is now targeting to dismantle illegal fish cages in Sampaloc Lake, one of this city's popular seven interconnected lakes and a major tourist attraction in Laguna province. The Laguna Lake Development Authority ...

    • Fish growers ask gov't: 'Reconsider' import plan: Aquaculture industry may suffer same fate as rice producers, warns group 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 12, 2020, on page A6)
      Fish growers in Taal Lake in Batangas province have opposed the government’s plan to import fish, saying this could only stall the industry’s recovery from damage wrought by Taal Volcano’s eruption and the low market demand ...

    • Fish kill feared caused by chemical pills 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 25, 2010, on page A19)
      Lake authorities were looking into reports that the fish kill at the Laguna de Bay on Friday was caused by chemical spills from an alcohol distillery plant in Cabuyao town that burned down last week. This was after lake ...

    • Fish pen owners in Laguna de Bay lose ₱115M to 'Rolly' 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 4, 2020, on page A8)
      Fish pens covering 90 hectares of Laguna de Bay were wiped out by strong winds and lake current, unleashing about 2.2 million kilograms of cultured “bangus” (milkfish) at the height of Typhoon “Rolly” (international name: ...

    • Fish pens strangle Laguna de Bay 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 3, 2017, on page A14)
      Section 51 of the Fisheries Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8550) states that “not over 10 percent of the suitable water surface area of all lakes and rivers shall be allotted for aquaculture purposes like fish ...

    • Fishers groups raises alarm over Cavite reclamation project 

      Cinco, Maricar; Reyes-Estrope, Carmela (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 27, 2020, on page A13)
      A militant fishers group warned that an ecologically disastrous reclamation of hundreds of hectares of the Manila Bay off the coastline of Cavite province, which would also displace hundreds of small fishers, violated a ...

    • Fishkill hits cages in Taal Lake; owners lose ₱5M 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 6, 2018, on page A12)
      The local government of Agoncillo town in Batangas province will distribute tilapia fingerlings to local cage operators affected by the recent fishkill in Taal Lake. The incidence of “fish mortality,” a term preferred by ...

    • From foes to friends of tropical fish 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 19, 2018, on page A8)
      Verde Island sits right in the middle of the Verde Island Passage (VIP), a strait between Luzon and Mindoro islands that biodiversity experts declared in 2005 the Earth’s “center of the center of marine shorefish biodiversity.” ...

    • Gov't runs after firm selling land along Laguna lake shores 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 11, 2020, on page A5)
      A developer, earlier called out by Malacañang for misrepresenting President Rodrigo Duterte’s message as a company endorsement, is facing a string of complaints and investigation by different government agencies over a ...

    • Gov’t starts dismantling fish pens in Laguna de Bay 

      Pazzibugan, Dona Z.; Aurelio, Julie M.; Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 27, 2017, on page A12)
      After issuing a final warning to all fish pen operators last month, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) began dismantling fish pens and fish cages in Laguna de Bay on Thursday. In his first address ...

    • Group sets off alarm over forest turtle trade 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 4, 2020, on page A4)
      A wildlife trade monitoring network has sounded the alarm on the massive illicit trading of the Philippine forest turtle (Siebenrockiella leytensis), previously thought to be extinct until rediscovered by scientists in ...

    • Groups ask Duterte to also stop wildlife trafficking 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 27, 2016, on page A14)
      Wildlife conservationists are challenging presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to include in his war on crime the illegal trade in wildlife, as the underground market continues to threaten endemic Philippine species. ...

    • Hope for the crocs 

      Mascariñas, Erwin M.; Cinco, Maricar; Baraoidan, Kimmy; Miranda, Romar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 5, 2020, on page A12)
      The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is among the local species categorized in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species as “critically endangered,” with its ...

    • In Tanay, Rizal, predator knife fish ends up as fertilizer 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 27, 2015, on page A13)
      The town of Tanay in Rizal province is turning knife fish caught from Laguna de Bay into organic compost to address the growing population of the predator species that continues to threaten local aquaculture. The knife ...

    • Laguna de Bay in grave peril 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 5, 2017, on page A1)
      Bayani Enriquez has happy childhood memories of swimming and fishing in Laguna de Bay in the 1980s. Now, the lake is weighed down by shanties, fish pens, illegal reclamation, industrial pollution, sewage and sedimentation. ...

    • Laguna de Bay to benefit from trade deal with Hungary 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 16, 2020, on page A12)
      The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) is planning to establish a modern and contactless water quality monitoring system across the 90,000-hectare Laguna de Bay as part of the Philippines’ $30-million (P1.44-billion) ...

    • LLDA funds sought for fish kill recovery 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 5, 2012, on page A8)
      Fishermen suffering from huge losses due to last week’s fish kill in the Laguna de Bay are asking local government units (LGUs) for assistance in securing funds provided to lakeside localities by the Laguna Lake Development ...

    • Lobo Mayor checks for underwater damage after dredging ship sails away 

      Cinco, Maricar; Chiu, Patricia Denise M. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 6, 2019, on page A6)
      The mayor of Lobo town in Batangas province on Friday asked fishery authorities to inspect the site where a 2,990-ton Chinese-manned dredging ship had dropped anchor to determine whether it had caused damage to marine life. ...