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Fishermen protest Bacoor 'reclamation'
The fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) filed a complaint against Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla before the Office of the Ombudsman over the proposed 420-hectare ...
- February 19, 2020
Feeding fishers for life through boat distribution program
Zamboanga City—Sixty-year-old Badjao fisherman Munib Araa always dreamed of a boat he can call his own but he was too poor to buy one. His story and those of other Badjao fishermen have brought to life the saying that ...
- September 24, 2016
Closed fishing season
The closed season started yesterday, Nov. 15, and ends Feb. 15 next year in the Visayan Sea where sardines, mackerel and herrings abound. In the waters off Northern Palawan, the closed fishing season started on Nov. 1 and ...
- November 16, 2022
Top performer fisheries play second fiddle
Vietnam is looking forward to earning $12 billion from fisheries by 2020 while the Philippines currently earns just $500 million. “Something is wrong,” said marine scientist Rafael Guerrero at a regional scientific conference ...
- May 25, 2017
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources joins the Agri-Food Fair at the PNB Multi-Purpose Hall, General Luna Street, Iloilo City from March 7-11, 2000
Our Share Vision: A modernized smallholder agriculture and fisheries; a diversified rural economy that is dynamic, technologically advanced and internationally competitive. Its transformation is guided by the sound practices ...
- March 7, 2000
Solar LEDs to light tuna landing site CamSur
The Municipality of San Jose, Philips Electric and Lighting Inc. plus the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) signed a formal partnership to illuminate San Jose Port, a tuna landing site, using solar-powered LED ...
- May 31, 2015
Make ban on certain imported fish permanent - Pamalakaya
A fisher group is asking government to make permanent the ban on certain imported fish in local wet markets. Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said the Department of Agriculture (DA) and ...
- December 17, 2022
BFAR moves to curb prices of galunggong
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is looking at the scales to lower prices of Blue Mackerel Scad or Shortfin Scad or galunggong, dubbed as the “poor man’s fish,” which have risen to as high as P240 per kilogram. ...
- March 12, 2021
Agriculture fund to release P3 billion worth of loans to support fish farmers
The Department of Finance (DoF) has approved the use of at least P3 billion for the development of fish farming, tapping most of the loan fund worth P4 billion from the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF). ...
- June 5, 2019
DA-BFAR to put up crab hatcheries
The Department of Agriculture through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) will establish crab hatcheries in selected coastal communities nationwide - in partnership with fishfarmers' groups, local ...
- October 2, 2011