Browsing Manila Bulletin by Subject "milkfish culture"
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₱ 6.8-M loss in Taal fishkill
(Manila Bulletin,February 4, 2019 , on page 14)The municipality of Talisay, Batangas reported that fish cage owners lost more than P6.8 million after the upwelling of sulfur in Taal Lake killed bangus and tilapia last Jan. 29 and 30. In a press briefing here Friday, ... -
After red tide, fish kill looms in Dagupan City
(Manila Bulletin,March 12, 2014 , on page A6)The City Agriculture Office (CAO) in Dagupan City has warned milkfish (bangus) growers to take precautionary measures against a possible fish kill or tangok. City agriculture officer Emma Molina explained that at this time ... -
Aquaculture summit set in Dagupan City
(Manila Bulletin,June 30, 2016 , on page B7)The First National Aquaculture Summit will be held on July 7-8, 2016 at the Leisure Coast Resort in Dagupan City under the auspices of the Philippine Association of Fish Producers, Inc. (PAFPI) together with the Bureau of ... -
Bangus Festival
(Manila Bulletin,April 30, 2018 , on page 11)The Philippines takes pride in numerous festivals which celebrate its vibrant and rich culture as a nation. Nearly every local community has a town fiesta to celebrate at a certain time of the year. For whatever reason ... -
Bangus Festival opens today
(Manila Bulletin,April 17, 2015 , on page 17)The grand opening of the celebration of the Bangus festival, which opens today, will be highlighted by the "Gilon-Gilon ed Baley" street dancing competition along the downtown loop this afternoon. A total of 19 continents ... -
Bangus hatchery technology transferred to private sector
(Manila Bulletin,January 28, 1999 , on page D-7)A new program to help reinvigorate and sustain the local bangus industry is now being implemented by a Southeast Asian center based here. The Accelerated Transfer of Milkfish Hatchery technology Program is being undertaken ... -
Bangus Heavyweight
(Manila Bulletin,April 13, 2018 , on page 8)A young Dagupeña beauty holds up one of the contenders in the ‘Heaviest and Longest Bangus’ contest during yesterday’s ‘Bangus Rodeo’ as part of the celebration of the Dagupan Bangus Festival. -
Bangus of Davao
(Manila Bulletin,July 24, 2015 , on page 21)The Bangus or milkfish, one of the common fish you'll find in Pangasinan, is also abundant in Barangay Dumanlag, Matina, Davao City where there are numerous fish ponds in the coastal area. Fisherman Dickson Hermoso harvests ... -
Bangus price down to ₱30
(Manila Bulletin,October 20, 2015 , on page 13)A sudden oversupply of "Bangus" of milkfish has dropped the price from ₱110 a kilo to as low as ₱30 per kilo at the Magsaysay fish market in this city, yesterday. An estimated 100 tons of milkfish had to be harvested over ... -
Bangus products to bear 'Dagupan Certified' logo
(Manila Bulletin,March 5, 2015 , on page 9)Dagupan City, Pangasinan - The Sangguniang Panlungsod recently passed City Ordinance No. 2028-2015, institutionalizing measures for the promotion and advancement of bangus industry here. Under the ordinance, the city will ... -
BFAR assures enough supply of bangus amid Pangasinan fishkill
(Manila Bulletin,June 8, 2018 , on page 9)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in the Ilocos region has assured that there is an ample supply of milkfish (bangus) for the region and other regions, despite the recent fishkill in the towns of Anda ... -
BFAR calls for additional bangus investments
(Manila Standard,April 25, 2014 , on page B6)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is pushing for more investments in the bangus (milkfish) industry. “We have to develop and entice more investors to put their money in breeding and hatchery,” said BFAR Region ... -
BFAR on how to deal with fish kill: Check calendar
(Manila Bulletin,July 3, 2010 , on page A15)Watch your calendar. This was the advice of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to owners of fish ponds and pens in Pangasinan to avoid losing their cultured bangus (milkfish) to fish kill. Regino Regpala, chemist ... -
BFAR: Overstocking caused fish kill
(Manila Bulletin,June 2, 2011 , on page 3)Overstocking of fish in cages caused the fish kill in Taal and Pangasinan. This was the gist of the report made by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on the loss of 700 metric tons (MT) of tilapia in Taal ... -
Breeding 'bangus' and micro-entrepreurs
(Manila Bulletin,August 3, 2013 , on page 6)Foodies swear that nothing beats the taste of authentic "Bonuan bangus," a milkfish variety grown only in Dagupan City - the so-called "Bangus Capital of the World" - and soon an island not far away in Pangasinan is poised ... -
DA opens Aussie-backed fish hatchery in Mindanao
(Manila Bulletin,February 2, 2009 , on page 14)The Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched a marine finfish hatchery in Misamis Occidental with the assistance of the provincial and Australian governments and the Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC). ... -
Dagupan fishkill alarms fishpond owners; gov’t action pressed
(Manila Bulletin,October 15, 2015 , on page 12)Fishpond owners here fear loses amounting to millions after large volumes of dead fish surfaced in mangroves and rivers in another case of fishkill in the city renowned for its bangus and seafood industries. Edwardo Maramba, ... -
Dagupan-Bonuan 'bangus' goes global.
(Manila Bulletin,February 5, 2004 , on page B-3)This vision must have been in the mind of Mayor Benjamin S. Lim even before he was elected into office. A preliminary step was needed though - place the famous Dagupan-Bonuan Bangus in the world map! Thus the attempt of ... -
Days of illegal fishpens in Dagupan numbered
(Manila Bulletin,September 20, 2016 , on page 6)An ultimatum is out for all owners and maintainers of illegal fish pens along the city's river system - October is the end of the line. Mayor Belen T. Fernandez of this city made it clear that the "Bantay Ilog" task force ... -
Experimental, bountiful bangus harvest
(Manila Bulletin,May 21, 2015 , on page 9)Workers from the BFAR-NIFTDC harvest experimental milkfish (bangus) in Sual, Pangasinan. BFAR-nIFTDC chief Westly Rosario said the experiment bangus were given soybean - based feed and grew to half kilo within a five-month ...