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Duterte admin asked to heed SC order protecting PH reefs
President Rodrigo Duterte and other government officials must enforce the Supreme Court’s writ of kalikasan order directing them to protect and rehabilitate the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), former ...
- May 5, 2019
US will defend PH in a South China Sea war? Don't bet on it
In another instance of Philippine media’s boundless faith in the country’s former colonial master, nearly all newspapers the other day banner-headlined US Secretary of State Michael Richard Pompeo’s claim that America will ...
- March 4, 2019
Fisherfolk: Demolish fish pens
On the deadline of the fish pen demolition, the fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) and the environmental alliance Save Laguna Lake Movement urged authorities to hasten the ...
- April 1, 2017
PHL's 'banana capital' turns hand to marine resource conservation
Dynamite fishing used to be rampant along the waters of Panabo City in Davao del Norte province, until the fishing community got together in 1999 and formed the City Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council ...
- May 21, 2015
UAE installs artificial caves in sea waters
The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) has started installing artificial caves in the fishing waters off the Ras Al Khaimah coast. The project is part of an agreement with the Delma Marine to build artificial ...
- October 5, 2017
'Agriculture, fisheries sector to recover in Q4'
Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary Manny Piñol expects the agriculture and fisheries sector to rebound and register positive growth in the last quarter of 2016, as the government provides more support to boost the ...
- August 22, 2016
BFAR lifts sardine fishing ban in Zamboanga waters
Even as the government continuously implements a three-month ban on sardine fishing every year, the sardines industry in Zamboanga still ended up growing P20 billion, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said. The Department ...
- March 6, 2018
For farmers, 'Tuwid na daan' not enough
In the Agriculture Fisheries 2025 (AF2025) Conference in February 2011, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), a think tank connected to the National Economic Development Authority, received 23 road maps ...
- September 30, 2015
Management framework for sardines needed
The Philippine government needs to craft a national management framework to address the overfishing of sardines, a number of local fisheries experts said. University of the Philippines- Visayas scientist Wilfredo Campos ...
- March 11, 2018
DENR urged to revoke ECCs issued to three Manila Bay reclamation projects
Three Manila Bay reclamation projects already issued with environment compliance certificates (ECCs) are located at the southern part of the bay which was already declared by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ...
- February 13, 2019