Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "planning"
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3 Eastern Visayas watersheds checked
(,October 15, 2016 , on page )The Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region office for Eastern Visayas (DENR-8) has done for a study on three watersheds to assess their condition. Assessed were the 3,44-hectare Almeria watershed in Biliran, ... -
Activities restricted at new marine reserve
(,August 22, 2017 , on page )Under Municipal Ordinance No. 004-2017, the MPA is from the village’s Sitio Casita to Sitio Balingasag spanning 24.49633 hectares. Within the core zone of the MPA, fishing of any kind or manner or collecting of shellfish ... -
ADB joins global effort on climate change
(,June 12, 2015 , on page )The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has joined a global Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to provide the highest-quality scientific data and tools to help developing countries improve their climate change planning. ADB vice ... -
Agency delays plan for keeping Asian carp from Great Lakes
(,March 2, 2017 , on page )The Trump administration has delayed indefinitely a plan for strengthening defenses on a crucial Chicago-area waterway to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, where scientists say they could cause severe harm ... -
Agri developing plan to export eel
(,January 20, 2015 , on page )The Agriculture Department said on Monday it will help local growers make the country's eel industry competitive and tap the export market. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said he recently met with domestic players ... -
Agriculture before the 2016 elections
(,January 10, 2015 , on page )At the start of 2015, we should focus on agricultural development instead of being unduly distracted by the 2016 elections. This especially applies to the possible misuse of the Department of Agriculture's (DA) proposed ... -
Agriculture remains top priority in 2015
(,January 8, 2015 , on page )The provincial government of Negros Occidental will keep the agriculture sector a top priority in 2015, said Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. The governor said on Tuesday that the province will continue with the agriculture ... -
Aid for farming, fishing families in Cotabato
(,February 17, 2017 , on page )For the past four decades, the lives and livelihood of farmers and fisherfolks in some areas of Mindanao have been affected by recurrent displacement as a result of sporadic armed clashes. Through a $3-million grant from ... -
Along comes…‘The Iloilo Nature Conservation Society’
(,April 9, 2018 , on page )Tuesday last week, April 3 to be exact, moi was “hijacked” by good friend and “brother”, international designer Edgardo Lopez Suelo, to attend with him a meeting/forum of stakeholders concerned with the ongoing construction ... -
Anti-illegal fishing advocate killed
(,August 14, 2015 , on page )Gerlie Menchie Alpajora, Sagnay Tuna Fishers Association secretary, was gunned down while sleeping beside her two young children inside their home in Barangay Bongalon in Sangay, Camarines Sur, said Nonie Enolva, spokesperson ... -
BFAR completes 15 fish landing centers in WV
(,August 16, 2017 , on page )The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR-6) completed 15 community fish landing centers (CLFC) in Western Visayas to boost marketing of fish catch in the region. Joel Abalayan of BFAR-6 Planning, Monitoring and ... -
BFAR R3 builds 22 fishports
(,September 17, 2016 , on page )The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Luzon is constructing 22 community fishing ports worth P65 million throughout the region to help fishermen earn more for their families. The community fishing ports, ... -
Board hearing to fish for El Niño measures
(,September 3, 2015 , on page )The provincial government of Negros Occidental is bracing for the El Niño phenomenon that is expected to hit the country in the last quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2016. Sangguniang Panlalawigan will have a ... -
Body to oversee Boracay development eyed
(,June 3, 2018 , on page )The House committee on natural resources is eyeing to create a development authority that will supervise activities in this famed island destination. Committee chairman Rep. Arnel Ty (Liquified Petroleum Gas Marketers’ ... -
Boracay closure is the wrong direction, says ex-DOT chief
(,April 18, 2018 , on page )A former secretary of the Department of Tourism (DOT) opined that the government took the wrong direction in closing down Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan for six months. Narzalina Lim, an Ilongga who served as tourism ... -
Boracay under state of calamity
(,April 27, 2018 , on page )Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has issued a proclamation placing the island of Boracay under a state of calamity effective April 26, 2018, the first day of the 6-month closure. In a press conference on Thursday, Department of the ... -
Candidates urged to come up with ‘blue agenda’ on sustainable fisheries
(,April 23, 2016 , on page )Presidential candidates are urged to adopt a "blue agenda" in order to build a stronger fishery sector in the next six years. In a statement, non-governmental organizations (NGO) has called on the presidential candidates ... -
China builds military-grade runway in West PH Sea
(,April 19, 2018 , on page )Aerial photographs show an increase in Chinese military infrastructure in the West Philippine Sea, and as a threat upon our sovereignty it is most alarming. Some of the photos show a military-grade runway and Chinese ... -
Chinese Navy sets combat drills in South China Sea
(,March 24, 2018 , on page )China claims most of the South China Sea, a key trade route and home to areas that are believed to hold large quantities of oil and natural gas. Along with China, parts of the South China Sea are subject to competing claims ... -
Consider rule on suitable land use for Boracay Island - Recto
(,April 11, 2018 , on page )Senator Ralph Recto on Monday urged the government to reconsider the plan to turn Boracay Island into a land reform area following its six-month rehabilitation. The Senate President Pro Tempore made the appeal after President ...