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Silliman launches ‘Fish Tiangge’
AN online platform to enable Filipino fishermen to sell their produce to consumers amid the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) community quarantine was launched at Silliman University in Dumaguete City. Fish Tiangge ...
- May 14, 2020
Stinking death spreads out to other species in Taal fishkill
Even as the Department of Interior and Local Government ordered the reduction of Taal Lake's fish corrals from 14,000 to a tenable 6,000 to ease fishkill outbreaks, the oxygen level in the volcano lake is dropping to ...
- June 3, 2011
US trains PH partners in underwater law enforcement
The United States government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAid), recently trained Philippine government partners in coral reef crime scene investigation and law enforcement. Under USAid's Sustainable ...
- July 11, 2022
'Duterte is dealing with China intrusion'
President Rodrigo Duterte is “privately” dealing with China’s incursions into the West Philippine Sea (WPS), his spokesman said on Thursday. Harry Roque Jr. issued the statement after the National Task Force for the West ...
- April 16, 2021
Canned sardines shortage looms
Fisherfolk leaders and sardine cannery owners are asking the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to convene a meeting with them and include coastal local government units (LGUs) to discuss the looming shortage ...
- September 20, 2022
Red tide hits Cancabato Bay in Leyte
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Tuesday warned the public from harvesting and eating shellfish from Cancabato Bay in Tacloban City that had been added to the list of areas found positive for the red ...
- January 16, 2019
Leatherback turtle fished out from Ragay
A big leatherback sea turtle weighing 500 kilograms was fished out by local fisherman from the waters of Ragay Gulf in Bicol on Thursday. Nonie Enolva, regional spokesman for Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, said ...
- November 23, 2018
Group bats for more PH aquaculture sites
Advocacy Group Tugon Kabuhayan is appealing to the government to ease the permitting process to develop more aquaculture areas in the Philippines. “We are producing aquaculture resources regularly. There’s no stabilizing ...
- January 26, 2021
Ban on Danish Seine fishing method strengthened
The nationwide ban on the use of the fishing device Danish Seine (hulbot-hulbot) that destroys marine habitats has been strengthened after the Department of Agriculture (DA) approved an order declaring mere possession of ...
- July 13, 2018
Del Rosario lost Panatag to China
The gall of former foreign affairs secretary Albert del Rosario to even open his mouth on the Whitsun Reef brouhaha and to admonish the Duterte administration to do this or that in dealing with China. In an article prominently ...
- April 26, 2021