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Pasig river rehab and development authority sought under house bill
A bill seeking to create the Pasig River Rehabilitation and Development Authority to undertake development and management of the Pasig River Basin System has been filed at the House of Representatives. Quezon City Rep. ...
- April 19, 2015
West Philippine Sea - an unfinished advocacy of Letty Shahani
The last advocacy which the late Letty Shahani, diplomat politician, educator, development and culture advocate, took up with such intense passion, was that of the country’s sovereign right to the West Philippine Sea(WPS). ...
- March 29, 2017
Ecofish program
The united state government is fully supporting the ecosystem improved for sustainable Fisheries (ECOFISH) program of the city government of Surigao. Through its United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ...
- August 1, 2013
Saving our seas: the world’s last ecological frontier faces the threat of commercialization
Early this year, an international media group together with a resort developer announced that it will open an underwater resort just off the coast of Palawan. The 400-hectare master-planned project will be developed in the ...
- February 5, 2017
B.F.A.R. Listing
The Region-13 office of the bureau of fisheries and Aquatic resources (BFAR-13) will launch the two-day municipal fisherfolk registration (fishR). program here next week. The fishR will make use of the database of fishermen ...
- August 15, 2013
Boats for fishers
The local government, along with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), distributed at least 18 motorized bancas and other equipment to fisher Isla Bonita Resort, here. Bancas, fishing nets and life jackets ...
- October 4, 2015
The future of seaweed industry (Part II)
Those in the seaweed industry have had their share of international intrigues when at one time in the past there were foreign groups who were peddling the idea that the Philippine carrageenan is carcinogenic. Earlier, ...
- May 6, 2017
$21-M tuna cannery plant to rise in Surigao City
The economic activity in this city is expected to get a big boost after an American and Japanese business partnership is set to construct a $21-million tuna cannery plant here, city officials said recently. It was learned ...
- September 1, 2010
BFAR, Land Bank embark on rent-a-cage plan
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and Land Banl of the Philippines (Land Bank) are embarking on a rent-a-cage program to help groups of fishermen affected by the El Niño phenomenon. Land Bank and BFAR ...
- March 12, 2010
Masbate Gold firms restore coral reefs, create new fishing and diving sites
Two major mining firms that comprise the Masbate Gold Project (MGP), have begun installing 400 to 800 reef balls in a fishing and mining town in Masbate, in a bid to help regenerate new reef covers. The coral reefs had ...
- January 24, 2018