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    • Experts to test oil leak-hit seawater in Banago 

      (Panay News, March 2, 2016, on page 16)
      Seawater samples for laboratory testing were taken from areas in Barangay Banago affected by the oil leak from a pipeline of Petron Corp. Negros Island Region's Office of Environment Monitoring and Enforcement Division ...

    • Experts urging gov't to craft framework to protect sardines 

      Macapagal, Jed Aldous (Malaya, March 21, 2018, on page A4)
      Experts are urging the government to craft a national management framework to address overfishing sardines in the country, citing declining stocks due to heavy fishing pressure and environmental changes. "Sardines are being ...

    • Experts: algal paste makes hatcheries operate easier 

      Subong, Elsa S. (The Daily Guardian, November 7, 2017, on page B1)
      Some experts now involved in a training at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) said that the use of algal paste will make it easier for hatcheries to operate without the ...

    • Experts: China to keep asserting WPS claims 

      Reyes, Dempsey (The Manila Times, May 16, 2020, on page A2)
      A unified and holistic approach among South China Sea (West Philippine Sea or WPS) claimants, especially those in the Southeast Asia is more than needed now, maritime experts suggested on Friday as it projected that China ...

    • Experts: Dump Fukushima radioactive water into ocean 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 1, 2020, on page A7)
      Radioactive water from the stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima should be released into the ocean or vaporized into the air, an expert panel advised the Japanese government on Friday. The proposal is nonbinding and sets no ...

    • Experts: PH should assert position on WPS 

      Calalo, Arlie (The Manila Times, August 25, 2022, on page A3)
      Security experts said on Wednesday that the Philippine government must formulate a national strategy asserting the country's position on the West Philippine Sea (WPS). "This national strategy is so important for us to ...

    • Explain absence from Manila Bay meet, mayors told 

      Clapano, Jose Rodel; Ong, Ghio (The Philippine Star, February 12, 2019, on page 10)
      The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will issue an order to have mayors who did not attend yesterday’s meeting on the rehabilitation of Manila Bay explain their absence, a source said yesterday. The ...

    • Explaining the PH-China sea dispute 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 16, 2016, on page A1-A15)
      After an international tribunal in The Hague ruled emphatically against China in a maritime dispute with the Philippines, many Chinese state media outlets responded on Wednesday by publishing a map. It showed the South ...

    • Exploiting arbitration ruling, Malaysia claims most of our Kalayaan Island Groups 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, August 12, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      What did former President Benigno Aquino 3rd, his Foreign Affairs secretary Albert del Rosario and his solicitor general Florin Hilbay do when they brought the arbitration suit against China before the Permanent Court of ...

    • Exploration with China not ‘harmful’ — Cayetano 

      Mariano, Nat (Manila Standard, August 13, 2018, on page A3)
      The framework for the proposed joint exploration hunt for oil and gas deposits with China in the West Philippine Sea will not be "harmful" to the country's territorial and sovereign rights, Foreign Affairs secretary Alan ...

    • Explorer's ship found after a century 

      (The Philippine Star, March 11, 2022, on page 15)
      Researchers have discovered the remarkably well-preserved wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, in 10,000 feet of icy water, a century after it was swallowed up by Antarctic ice during what proved ...

    • Exploring Philippine seas today, for the generations of tomorrow 

      Law, John (The Philippine Star, June 24, 2021, on page 9)
      In March 2021, a leading Philippine oceanographer and an American explorer, together, reached the deepest point of the Philippine Trench - a historic voyage to one of the least-explored places on Earth. By partnering on ...

    • Exploring Siargao's hidden island paradise of Halian 

      Mascariñas, Erwin M. (BusinessMirror, February 6, 2021, on page A9)
      While most people love to travel and visit popular tourist destinations, I prefer to explore areas that are yet to be shared on social media or watched on Instagram and YouTube channels. One such place is the small island ...

    • Exploring the benefits of seaweed 

      Yap, Julio Jr. (Panay News, October 7, 2016, on page 12)
      Living up its status as an agriculture-business (agri-business), marine and aquatic institution in the country, a school in Malita, Davao Occidental, has explored one of the many benefits of seaweed by converting it to ...

    • The exquisiteness of coral reefs 

      Feliciano, Leah Ann; Luminate, Lovellia (The Daily Guardian, June 1, 2016, on page B6)
      Oceans are the lifeblood of the planet and humankind.

    • Extension of agri enhancement fund pushed 

      Yap, Julio P. Jr. (Panay News, October 18, 2015, on page B1-C6)
      HB 6162 also expands the beneficiaries to include local government units, state universities and colleges, other government institutions, accredited non-government organizations, people's organizations, cooperatives, ...

    • Extensive, not intensive fishfarming 

      Antonio, Tony (BulletinToday, February 12, 1986, on page 1)
      How intensive is intensive? Fishpond operators may claim that they are engaged in intensive prawn culture if they have stocked their ponds with 10,000 to 50,000 fry per hectare. And based on Philippine industry standards, ...

    • External evaluators commend SEAFDEC/AQD for leading ASEAN aquaculture 

      (Panay News, February 20, 2018, on page B3-B2)
      External evaluators commended SEAFDEC/AQD during the "2017 Annual Progress and Planning Meeting on the Promotion of Sustainable Aquaculture and Resource Enhancement in Southeast Asia". External evaluators were composed of ...

    • Extinction 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, May 22, 2019, on page A4-A5)
      About 93 percent of ocean fish is being harvested at above the level of sustainability or their being replaced by new stocks. In 2015, 33 percent of marine fish stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels; 60 percent ...

    • Extra Boracay cops 'to counter protests' 

      Amio, Jonel P. (Panay News, April 10, 2018, on page 1)
      The additional police personnel who were deployed to this famed island destination - which is now facing a looming closure- are tasked to counter possible demonstrations, according to an official from the Police Regional ...