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Campaign against illegal fishing earns citation for villar
Senator Cynthia Villar was recognized by the Department of Agriculture for her role in the enactment of the law against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. During the first command conference of the Philippines ...
- December 24, 2018
Alaminos fisherfolks rely on payao for bounty catch
Fishermen in this city can now look forward to having a bountiful fish catch to sustain their livelihood with the installation of deep sea-fish aggregating devices. The fish aggregating device called payao serves as a ...
- September 23, 2018
Zamboanga fishing opens anew
Commercial fishing firms and fisherfolk can now resume their operations in the waters here as the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources officially opened the sardines season in the peninsula, ...
- March 2, 2018
Support fishing boat operators
The Department of Agriculture is asked to extend financial support to fishing boat operators who lost their livelihood due to the implementation of certain Fisheries Code provisions, particularly the ban on hulbot-hulbot. ...
- March 26, 2014
Fisheries bureau partly lifts ban on collecting seaweed
Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 250-2 will allow individual fishermen to collect, sell, trade, and transport Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, subject to seasonal restrictions and permit requirements. The newly-published ...
- October 8, 2018
What to do with the fish pens in Laguna de Bay: (part II)
Demolition of all the fish pens/cages in Laguna de Bay is anti-poor. It unnecessarily deprives the poor consumers of Metro Manila and surrounding communities of a significant part of their affordable animal protein supply. ...
- March 5, 2017
Illegal trawls swapped with legally allowed fishing gears in Cagayan
With the aim to put a halt to the use of active gear in municipal waters and at the same time ensure that fishers continue their main source of livelihooh, the fisheries bureau here currently implements a mechanism on ...
- January 12, 2019
200 fiberglass fishing boats for Bataan
This province will be having 200 new fishing boats care of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the first nine of these were already distributed to fishermen last Monday by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ...
- September 20, 2017
BFAR provides livelihood support
In line with the celebration of the 58th Fish Conservation Week, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Office 3 provided livelihood support to fish farmers in Central Luzon. According to BFAR Region ...
- September 19, 2021
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