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Shellfish ban lifted in Bataan
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has lifted the shellfish ban in Bataan after laboratory tests showed that all kinds of shellfish ban in Bataan after laboratory tests showed that all kinds of shellfish ...
- February 26, 2015
Atienza slams LLDA inaction over fishpens
Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza, also senior deputy minority leader, called the attention of President Rodrigo Duterte on the non-implementation of his order to dismantle all fishpens on Laguna de Bay in December last ...
- January 13, 2017
Pirates kill 8 fishermen off Zamboanga
Zamboanga City: Pirates attacked a group of fishermen off Zamboanga City and killed at least eight of them, while five others survived. The gunmen asked the fishermen if they were Muslims, and shot them when they failed ...
- January 11, 2017
Bicol waging war vs illegal fishers
The operations of bigtime illegal fishers poaching the waters of the Bicol region are numbered, Chief Supt. Victor Deona of the region’s police force said over the weekend. Deona’s declaration was lauded by church and ...
- May 25, 2015
DA launches large agriculture projects in Palawan
As part of the government's food self-sufficiency initiative, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has earmarked some P594 million for irrigation projects, farm machinery and fisheries inputs in Palawan. The projects include ...
- January 23, 2012
PH boats fishing outside Panatag, US think tank claims
Filipino fishermen have been fishing just outside, not inside, the lagoon of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, a Washington, D.C. think tank claims, citing recent satellite images. On its website, the Asia Maritime Transparency ...
- November 3, 2016
Saving people's lives is part of a fisherman's calling
Thrust into the limelight by the plane that crashed into the waters girding his hometown and took the lives of Interior secretary Jesse Robredo, pilot Captain Jessup Bahin-ting and flight student Kshitiz Chand, a Masbateño ...
- September 26, 2012
Palace: Cabinet execs to discuss boat sinking
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has warned the Philippines against politicizing the boat’s sinking, which it described as a “ordinary maritime incident.” The Filipino boat’s crew — rescued by a Vietnamese vessel — has claimed ...
- June 17, 2019
Hope for coastal restoration
Promoting an advocacy is one thing making money for long term survival is another thing Volunteerism could power a movement for long periods of time, but after a while, it is very difficult to sustain a good project not ...
- October 4, 2012
Carpio inhibits self in South China Sea case
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has recused himself from the West Philippine (South China) Sea case pending before the high court after the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) accused him of being ...
- July 3, 2019