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Biodiversity in Samar Sea
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that by 2050, catches of main fish species could decline by up to 40 percent in the tropics, where livelihoods, food and nutrition security ...
- October 5, 2016
Pototan eyed as native catfish dev't center
If the town Zarraga is known as the African catfish center, Pototan would like to be known as the native catfish center. The African catfish (Clarias gariepinus, C. lareza) made Zarraga famous because of the proliferation ...
- October 1, 1999
Saving biodiversity at Verde Island Passage
Casting a fishing line with a coral sinker and a plastic-bottle reel, children as young as 8 years old catch their next meal from the pebbled shore of Barangay San Andres here. Most of the women are at home, raising hogs ...
- October 21, 2018
Iloilo gets P30-M agri loan fund
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has allocated a P30 million loan fund for two towns in Iloilo to help improve the country’s lending for the agriculture sector. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said the department ...
- September 10, 2017
Don't eat dead fish from oil spill-hit areas, BFAR warns
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Western Visayas has issued a warning against eating dead fish in coastal areas contaminated by bunker fuel from a barge damaged by an explosion last week. Remia Aparri, ...
- July 9, 2020
Fish hatcheries needed in every province to boost supply — BFAR
Every province in the country should have at least one fish hatchery to improve the country’s fish fry supply and boost the local aquaculture sector, the top official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) ...
- June 17, 2021
SEAFDEC hunt for hatchery sites on 2nd leg
Tigbauan, Iloilo – The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) continues to scout for ideal sites for multispecies hatchery. For the second leg of the search, a SEAFDEC feasibility study team is presently ...
- April 26, 2018
The oil spill and the blame game
The clean-up of the oil spill that contaminated Manila Bay and affected the livelihood of hundreds of fishermen in at least three towns of Cavite last Thursday is almost complete. One can just imagine the huge damage brought ...
- August 12, 2013
Your fish is your future
Lying within the global center of marine biodiversity, the Philippines is one of the world’s top fish producing countries, and millions of Filipinos derive their livelihood from fishing. However, these rich and precious ...
- June 5, 2019
Mariculture is the answer
The development of mariculture parks promises to be the answer to the continuing depletion of fish catch in our marine waters that threatens the livelihood of fisherfolks in our coastal communities. That is why the Bureau ...
- September 9, 2010