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Navy stops Panatag patrol: National security adviser says decision meant to ease tension in disputed waters
The Navy has stopped sending patrols to the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal to ease tension with China, the national security adviser, Hermogenes Esperon Jr., said here last week. “We do not send Navy ships to the area anymore. ...
- November 14, 2017
12-kg tagged turtle set free
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Tuesday released a 12-kilogram Olive Ridley turtle, that kept returning to a village in Pangasinan, into the Lingayen Gulf. The turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea), whose ...
- December 15, 2010
Bicol tuna
A fisherman carries on his shoulder a tuna caught in the Lagonoy Gulf in Cataduanes, which had been rich in tuna and other marine resources until studies showed it to be overfished. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Nature, ...
- July 17, 2015
10 poachers left at sea off Palawan
Ten Chinese nationals were reported missing at sea off Balabac Island in southern Palawan and may have been left in small sampan boats after a chase of their mother ship on Thursday by a composite team of the Coast Guard ...
- June 1, 2010
Gov’t ban on destructive fishing methods starts
Since April 15, commercial fishing boat captain Arnel Perante and his 25-member crew have been idle in their boat docked on Pantal River here. Some of them tinkered with their fishing nets, sewing the portions that were ...
- April 29, 2014
100 tons of ‘tilapia’ lost in fish kill
An estimated 100 metric tons of tilapia, worth at least P5 million, were lost in a fish kill that hit Friday in Lake Buhi in Buhi, Camarines Sur, fisheries officials said yesterday. Ronald Canabe, spokesperson of the Bureau ...
- November 3, 2010
High court orders gov't to protect China-occupied PH reefs in WPS
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a special order for the protection and rehabilitation of destroyed marine environment in three Philippine features in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that were either seized by China or ...
- May 4, 2019
The business of fixing Lingayen Gulf
Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used ...
- February 6, 2013
No more fish to catch, or spilt fuel to collect
Wearing the face masks given to them by health and social workers, Rodolfo Lasca, 49, and two neighbors arrived at the village basketball court yesterday to claim their emergency rice ration. Ever since a huge diesel oil ...
- August 11, 2013
Duterte frees 17 viet fishers to boost ties
Saying that Filipinos now love in a world with "very complicated international relations," President Duterte on Wednesday released 17 Vietnamese fishermen caught on waters off Ilocos Sur province as a friendly gesture ...
- November 3, 2016