Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "Poisonous fish"

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    • Boy dies after eating puffer fish 

      Cordova, Calvin D. (Manila Bulletin, March 28, 2019, on page 10)
      A five-year-old boy died while his parents and his four siblings were hospitalized after they ate puffer fish locally known as butete in Panganan Island, Lapu-Lapu City. The victims complained of dizziness after they ...

    • 'Buriring', a delicacy in Cadiz City 

      Garde, Cyrus M. (Panay News, September 2, 2012, on page D6)
      Despite of its potent nerve poison in its ovAry and liver, small pufferfish, locally known here as "buriring", is one of the delicacies on the table in Cadiz, a seashore city in Northern Negros Occidental, about 65 kilometers ...

    • The business of fixing Lingayen Gulf 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 6, 2013, on page A17)
      Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used ...

    • Coral reef fish declared flagship species of Apo Reef 

      Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, May 18, 2018, on page 6)
      The coral reef fish has been declared as flagship species of the world famous Apo Reef Natural Park off Occidental Mindoro. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Protected Area Management Board approved ...

    • Deadly Fugu fish flub prompts Japan emergency warning 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, January 17, 2018, on page B5)
      A Japanese city has activated an emergency warning system to alert residents to avoid eating locally purchased blowfish, after a mix-up saw toxic parts of the delicacy go on sale. A supermarket in Gamagori in central Japan ...

    • Japanese city on alert for deadly blowfish 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, January 17, 2018, on page 6)
      A Japanese city has broadcast emergency warnings to prevent people consuming blowfish, after potentially deadly portions were mistakenly sold. A local supermarket in Gamagori city sold five packets of fugu fish without ...

    • Puffer fish meal kills 3 in family 

      Saldico, Ruel (Manila Bulletin, March 3, 2017, on page 6)
      Three members of a family, including three children, died after partaking in a meal of puffer fish, locally known as “tikong” or “butete,” on the island barangay of Cabugao, here, last Thursday. Bureau of Fisheries and ...

    • Rare shark found in Albay's Burias Pass 

      Barcia, Rhaydz B. (The Manila Times, January 30, 2015, on page A6)
      A fisherman had the surprise of his life when he fished out a lifeless but very rare 15-foot deepwater megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) in Burias Pass on Wednesday. Nonie Enolva, marine fisheries resources management ...

    • Warning: don't eat fish caught at the Iloilo River 

      (Panay News, March 7, 2020, on page 13)
      The Iloilo River remains dirty, and perhaps even hazardous to human health. So do not eat fish caught from this body of water. In its latest physiochemical analysis, the Environment Management Bureau Region 6 found the ...