Browsing Malaya by Subject "Marine fish"

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    • Celebrating PH independence with a fishy doodle 

      (Malaya, June 13, 2018, on page A11)
      Google Philippines celebrates the 120th anniversary of Philippine Independence with a doodle that features the Philippine marine life. Home to at least 2,000 aquatic species and long cluster of corals, the Philippines is ...

    • Climate change threatens fish supply 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, April 25, 2017, on page A1-A4)
      Global warming means less fish on the table. That’s reason for concern to a country that consumes a lot more fish than the global average of 15 kilograms annually. Already, Philippine coral reefs are degraded, the seed ...

    • DENR cites LGU efforts on 'butanding' preservation 

      (Malaya, November 6, 2017, on page A2)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has cited the country’s gains in protecting the whale shark or butanding, calling the local conservation effort a significant model worth emulating. During the ...

    • The effects are maddening as they go viral 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, September 9, 2011, on page A9-A10)
      Viral nervous necrosis (VNN) is caused by betanodaviruses, or spherical viruses that targets the nervous system and kills brain cells in fish in order to survive and thrive. When it hits, VNN causes fish to act crazy. It ...

    • Giant Lapu-Lapu spawners freed into Sarangani Bay 

      (Malaya, July 28, 2017, on page A10)
      Sarangani Bay is now the home of five king grouper spawners donated by Finfish Hatcheries Inc., the largest commercial fishing hatchery in the Philippines.

    • 'Giant lapu-lapu' spawners released into Sarangani Bay 

      (Malaya, July 28, 2017, on page A10)
      Sarangani Bay is now the home of five king grouper spawners donated by Finfish Hatcheries Inc., the largest commercial fishing hatchery in the Philippines. Locally known as “lapu-lapu” or “kugtong,” the giant groupers were ...

    • Man attacks sharks! 

      (Malaya, October 12, 2012, on page A11)
      Real shark fin soup, not the imitation stirred egg yolk version, is very expensive. At a price of more than (dollar sign) 700 per kilo, shark fin is among the world's most valuable fishery products. Which is why up to 73 ...

    • Reef fisheries of the Spratlys, West Philippine Sea 

      Alcala, Angel C. (Malaya, September 24, 2015, on page B5)
      Nañola et al. in 1997 reported 248 species from 1991 to 1996 in the Kalayaan Group of Islands (KIG). The larger species had an average standing stock or biomass of 114 metric tons per km2. But the Joint Oceanographic and ...

    • SEAFDEC boosts survival of dwindling seahorse stocks 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, August 26, 2011, on page A9-A10)
      For the first time, saving baby seahorses in captivity is possible with the simple discovery that washing their food with low dose formalin prevents mass mortality. The new research, made by Shela Mae A. Buen-Ursua at the ...

    • SEAFDEC develops vaccine against devastating fish virus 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, September 9, 2011, on page A9-A10)
      Tigbauan, Iloilo - A vaccine is being field tested against a virus that causes one of the world's most lethal fish diseases that wipes out entire stocks. "The emergence of fish diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, and ...

    • Sharks worth more for tourism than in soup 

      Reuters (Malaya, June 7, 2013, on page B1)
      Sharks swimming free in the oceans may soon become more valuable as tourist attractions than when caught, sliced up and served i soup, a global study showed on Friday. It urged better protection for the fish, from Australia ...