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Shellfishes from Pangasinan sold in Baguio ‘poisonous’
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has found that shellfishes from Bolinao and Anda towns in Pangasinan being sold in Baguio City are not free of the so-called red tide and are therefore poisonous. Results ...
- March 28, 2014
Activists chase Japanese whalers
A group of anti-whaling activists was on Monday chasing Japan's whaling fleet in the icy waters off Antarctica, as the country's annual Antarctic whale hunt gets underway. The Sea Shepherd organization, which each year ...
- January 7, 2014
PH top 5 dive sites still the world's best
Scuba divers will never stop telling you: The Philippines is one of the best places in the world to dive. Just ask dedicated locals as well as visitors from all over the world, including award-winning underwater photographers ...
- March 30, 2014
Farmers, fishermen get credit facility
A flexible credit facility line is now available for some 40,000 needy farmers and fishermen in the country's poorest provinces. The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), ...
- February 25, 2014
Japanese fishermen kill 30 more dolphins in Taiji
Fishermen in the small Japanese town of Taiji killed more than two-dozen striped dolphins on Thursday, cam–paigners said, as global outrage over the slaughter grows. Activists from the militant environmentalist group Sea ...
- January 24, 2014
Registration program for fishermen launched
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) headed by Director Asis G. Perez launched the National Program for Municipal Fisherfolk Registration (FishR) in Western Visayas on February 18. According to Director ...
- February 21, 2014
88 fishermen arrested
Police have arrested at least 88 fishermen in six motor Bancas off the sea of this city for violating the fisheries code. The police, Coast Guard and "Bantay-Dagat" (Sea Watch" groups have been on guard against illegal ...
- March 29, 2014
Task force seeks more oil spill clean up workers
The power Barge 103 oil spill task force has recommended to the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM), owner of the typhoon-wrecked power barge 103, to add more workers for the oil spill clean up in ...
- February 25, 2014
Seaweed 'overtakes' coconut in caluya
No less than Mayor Genevive Gumban Lim-Reyes has encouraged them to go into seaweed production without necessarily abandoning coconut because of its economic potential. "Seaweeds are so in demand," the mayor enthused, ...
- March 21, 2014
Fish festival grill bids for guinness record
Around 60 tons of freshwater fishes will be grilled today to celebrate the "Malangsi Festival" (Malangsi is a Pangasinan term for fish) and bid to snatch the title of "longest barbecue" as Guinness World Record. The municipal ...
- April 4, 2014