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Community-based project raises farmers, fishers income
More than 11,000 farmers and fisher folk around the country have seen their productivity increase and their incomes rise thanks to a community-based participatory research program initiated by the Bureau of Agricultural ...
- March 6, 2014
BFAR seizes shipment of helmet shells
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and elements of the Philippine National Police confiscated on Saturday some 106 boxes of helmet shells at the Chinese pier in Jolo, Sulu. The BFAR reported that the ...
- January 30, 2014
Red tide alert still up in Bataan
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Thursday announced that it has lifted red tide warning in coastal waters nationwide, expect in Bataan peninsula. BFAR said that selfish and other fish species from ...
- May 23, 2014
Shellfishes from Pangasinan sold in Baguio ‘poisonous’
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has found that shellfishes from Bolinao and Anda towns in Pangasinan being sold in Baguio City are not free of the so-called red tide and are therefore poisonous. Results ...
- March 28, 2014
Japanese fishermen kill 30 more dolphins in Taiji
Fishermen in the small Japanese town of Taiji killed more than two-dozen striped dolphins on Thursday, cam–paigners said, as global outrage over the slaughter grows. Activists from the militant environmentalist group Sea ...
- January 24, 2014
Taal Lake recovers from fish kill - BFAR
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Wednesday said it has observed significant improvement in the dissolved oxygen and water transparency of Taal Lake, nearly a month after the reported sulfur upwelling ...
- February 13, 2014
Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
Ocean acidification has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned on Wednesday. In the past two ...
- October 9, 2014
DA releases funds for agricultural loans
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has recently released a P1billion fund through a flexible credit facility to provide agricultural loans to marginalized farmers and fisherfolk in the poorest provinces across the country. ...
- February 24, 2014
BFAR Cagayan Valley warns against fish kill this summer
With temperature reaching as high as 39 degrees Celsius in Tuguegarao City in recent days, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for Region 2 has warned fish farmers in Cagayan Valley of an imminent “fish ...
- April 30, 2014
Groups call for action on poaching of sea turtles
A group of 20 civil society organizations has come together to call on the government to implement the full force of the law on the government to implement the full force of the law on the poaching of 500 dead and live sea ...
- May 27, 2014