Browsing by Subject "Fishing fleet"

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    • AFP Chief lied on new 'illegal structures' at Union Banks 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 12, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Or perhaps Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana was just fed the wrong information or just ignorant of the Spratly Islands dispute, when he claimed last April 1 that the Chinese had built new illegal ...

    • Aquaculture-wave of the future 

      del Castillo, Butch (BusinessMirror, February 23, 2012, on page Retrieved from-http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/opinion)
      In the Philippines, Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala and his deputy-Director Asis Perez of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources or BFAR-are collaborating with Dr. Jpebert D. Toledo who heads the Southeast ...

    • Ban on tuna fishing in the Pacific: Boon or bane? 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 4, 2010, on page A14)
      Conservation measures are generally instituted to prevent the collapse of fish stocks due to overfishing. These can be in the form of closing an area for any fishing activity, limiting the amount of fish that can be caught ...

    • BFAR 2-month fishing ban hit 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, November 14, 2016, on page A6)
      The municipal chapter of the group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas in Lemery, Batangas on Sunday lamented a two-month fishing ban in Balayan Bay, saying it would affect thousands of fisherfolk from ...

    • BFAR invites local fishermen to catch fish in the West PH Sea 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, November 2, 2018, on page 6)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Mimaropa is inviting local vessels and large commercial fleets to catch fish in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to help meet the country's fish consumption targets. ...

    • Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource, Fisheries Administrative Order No. 262, Series of 2018, Subject: Regulation on the use of superlights and fishing light attractors in commercial fishing 

      (The Philippine Star, November 14, 2018, on page B13)
      Rule 44.1 of Section 44 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act 8550 as Amended by Republic Act 10654 requires that DA-BFAR shall, within eighteen (18) months from the effectivity of IRR, determine the ...

    • China goes unconventional in escalating South China Sea face-off 

      Apps, Peter (Daily Guardian, April 15, 2019, on page 5)
      In early December, a flotilla of two dozen Chinese fishing boats and escort warships sailed to here the disputed Filipino-occupied reef of Thitu. By the end of the month, Beijing had almost 100 vessels in and around the ...

    • China military again lands plane on PH reef 

      Andrade, Jeannette I. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 11, 2018, on page A1-A12)
      Malacañang need no more wait to acquire technology to verify and protest China’s violation of the Philippines’ sovereignty in the Spratly archipelago. Satellite imagery has shown the first confirmed landing by China of a ...

    • China to deploy fighter jets to SCS — think tank 

      Romero, Paolo; Laude, Jaime (The Philippine Star, May 15, 2018, on page 2)
      In a matter of time, China will deploy fighter jets to its artificial islands in the South China Sea, which is expected to significantly expand Beijing’s capability to project power in its outposts, a private think tank ...

    • China to project power through artificial islands 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, February 20, 2015, on page 6)
      China’s creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coastguard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival ...

    • China trains fishing militia to venture into Spratlys 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 2, 2016, on page A1-A23)
      The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan Island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into ...

    • China's fishing fleet part of Beijing's drive to become a maritime power: First word 

      Makabenta, Yen (The Manila Times, April 24, 2021, on page A1-A11)
      Whenever Chinese fishing vessels land in a major fishing dispute with another country, the standard rationale of China’s foreign ministry is that its fishermen are only exercising their rights to fish in traditional fishing ...

    • China's giant fishing fleet told to stop catching squid 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 30, 2021, on page B4)
      China has ordered its 2,600-strong fishing fleet-the world's biggest-to suspend catching squid in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans after an international backlash that claims they are overfishing and damaging fragile ...

    • 'Chinese coast guard regularly intimidates Pinoy fishers in SCS' 

      Katigbak, Jose; Romero, Alexis; Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, March 29, 2019, on page 2)
      What’s happening to Filipino fishermen in the South China Sea? At about the same time as a senior Philippine military officer denied reports Filipino fishermen were being harassed by Chinese security forces in the vicinity ...

    • Chinese fishing fleet stirs up waters in Peru 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 27, 2020, on page A9)
      Peru’s Navy on Friday was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country’s waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between ...

    • Chinese maritime militia invasion a hoax; Duterte should fire Lorenzana and Locsin 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 23, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      A month after the hysterics, sadly participated in by our own Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries, the so-called “intrusion” by 200 Chinese “maritime militia in our territory” is turning out to be a hoax. It is a hoax ...

    • DA urges use of circle hooks 

      Benaning, Marvyn N. (Manila Bulletin, February 8, 2010, on page 13)
      From hereon, Filipino tuna fishermen will only be limited to the use of circle hooks in catching their prey. The Department of Agriculture (DA) says it will intensify its campaign for the use of circle hooks in catching ...

    • Danish firms eye PH fisheries sector 

      (Malaya, January 20, 2016, on page A2)
      Danish businesses are exploring business and trade opportunities in the Philippines, particularly in the fisheries, energy and health sectors, according to Jan Christensen, ambassador of Denmark.

    • Danish fishermen hope to keep access to British waters in Brexit deal 

      Bas-Wohlert, Camille (Manila Standard, November 10, 2020, on page B3)
      In Thyboron, a port in western Denmark, the sky is grey and overcast and fishermen look just as gloomy as soon as the word Brexit is mentioned. Almost all of the 2,000 people who live here know a fisherman whose livelihood ...

    • EU bans uncertified RP tuna 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, January 26, 2010, on page A1-A5)
      The Philippine is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue because its marine products are off limits to European consumers. Since January 1, the European Union (EU) imposed a mandatory scheme that allows only seafood ...