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Kalayaan mayor urges PH fishers to defy China.
The mayor of Kalayaan town, in the Spratlys, on Friday said he would encourage Filipino fishermen to ignore China’s new rules that require foreign fishermen to seek permission from Chinese regional authorities before ...
- January 11, 2014
Pangasinan city bids 'bangus' goodbye
Goodbye, bangus. Hello, tulya and tahong—and tourism? This fourth-class city hosting Pangasinan province’s prime tourist destination, the Hundred Islands National Park, won’t be producing bangus (milkfish) anymore, citing ...
- August 3, 2016
Environment chiefs intend to address marine pollution
Some of the world's environment ministers and representatives from governments, international organizations, business sector, and civil society are now here in Manila calling for a global unified action to combat marine ...
- September 24, 2017
Phl, US troops install artificial habitat reefs
Filipino and American servicemen have successfully installed 30 artificial reefs that will serve as fish sanctuaries and breeding grounds in the waters of Calatagan in Batangas, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) reported ...
- August 18, 2019
Mangroves potential lab for antibiotics
Philippine mangrove ecosystems have abundant bacteria whose bioactive compounds can be used to produce powerful antibiotics, according to research conducted by the University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB) and ...
- February 9, 2017
Metro Pacific shores up Balayan Bay ecosystem
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation Foundation, through its Shore It Up program, recently received a donation of 40 eco-reef modules which will be installed in Balayan Bay, ...
- February 12, 2019
No need to be nasty, Rody tells Chinese patrols
With the Philippines and China supposedly friends, the Chinese military does not have to be “nasty” by threatening Filipinos conducting maritime patrols in the West Philippine Sea especially around the Spratlys where the ...
- August 19, 2018
Gov't to pursue reef compensation
Malacañang is committed to pursuing compensation for the damage caused by a US Navy ship that ran aground last year at Tubbataha Reef, a United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage ...
- January 5, 2014
Chinese jailed for fishing in Galapagos
A court in Ecuador sentenced the crew if a Chinese ship caught fishing endangered sharks in the Galapagos marine reserve to prison. The Chinese-flagged Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 was caught within the protected zone on August 13 ...
- August 29, 2017
.4-M bangus fry seized at NAIA
Customs officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) confiscated around 450,000 live milkfish (bangus) fry that arrived from Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia on three different airlines Saturday afternoon. ...
- March 11, 2013