Browsing by Subject "high seas"
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BFAR bans use of fish aggregating devices
July 3, 2015 , on page B15)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is implementing beginning this month until September a ban on unregulated use of fish aggregating devices (FAD) within Philippine waters. The annual three-month ban is ... -
Biodiversity thriving with clean rivers
(Manila Standard,September 25, 2023 , on page B4)Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh traded the ocean for New York State’s Hudson River, declaring at the end of his epic 517 kilometer journey downriver on Wednesday that “we can never become complacent when it comes to protecting ... -
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource, Fisheries Administrative Order No. 245-3, Series of 2015
July 1, 2015 , on page B5)Subject: Regulations and Implementing Guideline on Group Tuna Purse Seine Operations in High Seas Pocket Number 1 as a Special Management Area. -
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries administrative Order No. 198-1, Series of 2018, Amended rules and regulations on registration and licensing of commercial fishing vessels, fishing gears and fishworkers
September 16, 2018 , on page B7)In accordance with Republic Act No. 8550, as amended by Republic Act No. 10654, entitled "An Act to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, Amending Republic Act No. 8550, Otherwise Known ... -
Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Fisheries Administrative Order No. 266: (Series of 2020)
October 15, 2020 , on page A6)Subject: Rules and regulations on the implementation of Vessel Monitoring Measures (VMM) and Electronic Report System (ERS) for commercial Philippine flagged fishing vessels amending FAO 260 Series of 2018. -
High seas treaty on allocating fish across jurisdiction
June 11, 2022 , on page A4-A5)On Dec. 24, 2017, the UN General Assembly voted to convene a multi-year process to develop a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity, now referred to as the Treaty on Biodiversity in ... -
Jane Fonda warns oceans are ‘dying’ amid UN treaty talks
February 22, 2023 , on page 7)Actor and activist actress Jane Fonda on Monday, Feb. 20, warned that humanity is “losing the ocean,” as two weeks of negotiations begin at the United Nations on a treaty to protect the high seas. “The ocean provides us ... -
PH, 60 countries sign treaty protecting high seas
September 22, 2023 , on page A1-A2)The Philippines joined over 60 other countries at the United Nations in signing the first-ever treaty on protecting the international high seas, raising hopes that it will come into force soon and protect threatened ... -
UN begins negotiations on treaty to protect imperiled high seas
September 3, 2018 , on page S2/7)United Nations on Tuesday kicked-off talks on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection. Four sessions of talks, each lasting two weeks, are ... -
UN ocean treaty talks resume to save biodiversity
February 21, 2023 , on page A3)United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean lies outside national boundaries ...