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China offers aquaculture, but fishers won’t bite
The head of a fisherman’s group here likened to a “lollipop” being offered to appease a crying child a Chinese government offer to bring fish-growing technology to local fishermen displaced by a territorial row over ...
- November 14, 2016
Fisheries Code blamed for low fish production
A fisherfolk group on Sunday blamed the dwindling municipal fish production to the repressive provisions of the amended Fisheries Code under the Republic Act 10654, including its registration and licensing requirements. ...
- January 8, 2018
SEAFDEC, BFAR train Samar-Leyte fish growers
An on-site training in marine aquaculture of high value fishes was conducted at Hotel Alejandro in Tacloban City. More than 80 participants, mostly Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) training officers from ...
- June 1, 2019
BFAR and Landbank partner for program to aid fisherfolk
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines have partnered to come up with a livelihood program meant to help fisherfolk. The Agriculture department said in a statement ...
- March 11, 2010
Technical congress renames mud crab as mangrove crab
Mud crabs will now be referred to as mangrove crabs. This was agreed upon during the first National Mud Crab Congress held by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC) in Tigbauan, ...
- January 31, 2016
Lanao Norte gets ₱25-M aid for fishery projects
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has awarded a financial assistance worth ₱25 million to finance the implementation of the development of the province's "mariculture" and "aqua" tourism projects in Lanao ...
- March 5, 2010
Iloilo City to host int’l workshop on environment-friendly aquaculture
To address various environmental and social issues of aquaculture in Southeast Asia, an international workshop on healthy and environment-friendly aquaculture will be conducted on June 25 to 27, 2019 at Richmonde Hotel ...
- June 22, 2019
Fish cages crowding Laguna's Sampaloc Lake next targey on LLDA demolition list
The government is now targeting to dismantle illegal fish cages in Sampaloc Lake, one of this city's popular seven interconnected lakes and a major tourist attraction in Laguna province. The Laguna Lake Development Authority ...
- August 2, 2017
Blue mussels reach Pangasinan coast
The blue mussels along the Brazilian and Colombian coasts of South America traversing the Panama Canal have reached coastal waters here by way of the tropical Eastern Pacific. Dr. Michael Rice, a professor of the Department ...
- December 31, 2015
Move over GG, tilapia's now poor man's fish
Tilapia is the preferred food of most Filipinos than galunggong (mackerel scad) during hard times, indicating that if tilapia price rises, hunger incidence would also go up, the National Economic and Development Authority ...
- February 12, 2010