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Agri output rebounds
Agriculture output grew 5.28 percent in the first quarter compared with a year ago, rebounding from a contraction in the previous quarter largely due to good weather, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said yesterday. ...
- May 16, 2017
Fish and sea creatures
If you’re walking or driving down Manila’s streets this morning and find yourself in the midst of sea creatures—turtles, fish, crabs, squids, dolphins and maybe even a mermaid or merman (what we call siokoy)—don’t be ...
- May 30, 2014
'FishR' to hasten help to fisherfolks
The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) eyes to register more or less 100,000 fisherfolks in Western Visayas under the National Program for Municipal Fisherfolk Registration (FishR). ...
- February 19, 2014
$200-M WB funding eyed for fisheries
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking World Bank funding for its $200-million Fisheries and Coastal Resiliency (FishCoRe) project that aims to improve the country’s fishery production. In a statement on Monday, ...
- June 2, 2020
Sardine industry banking on warmer seas to increase catch
While most businesses in the agriculture sector are bracing for the negative impact of El Niño this year, the Fishery bureau and the sardine industry are banking on the warmer seas in the western Pacific Ocean to bring in ...
- February 2, 2010
Fishery officials call on youth to seriously consider ‘promising’ career in aquaculture
An international research center is urging more youth to engage themselves in the aquaculture business amid the threat posed by the African swine fever (ASF) to meat supplies in the country. Dan Baliao, chief of the Southeast ...
- April 1, 2021
DA allots P594 M for irrigation, agri projects in Palawan
The Department of Agriculture is allocating P594-million worth of irrigation projects, farm machinery, and inputs, and fishery initiatives in Palawan, to help make the province sufficient in rice, major staples, fishery ...
- January 23, 2012
WWF seeks int'l certification for yellowfin tuna fishing sites
Environmental solutions provider World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is working to secure Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for two yellowfin tuna fishing sites. Up for certification next year are the Lagonoy ...
- November 8, 2015
Benham Rise teeming with marine life
A dazzling array of soft and hard corals, fish, algae, and sponges comprised some of the biological diversity documented by marine scientists from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, University of the Philippines ...
- June 7, 2016
Fisheries talks with Taiwan readied
The Philippine government is conducting an inventory of its laws related to fisheries and patrimony in preparation for talks with Taiwan. Any talks for a possible fisheries agreement between the Philippines and Taiwan, ...
- June 9, 2013