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    • Blast fishing blamed for dolphin stranding 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 7, 2022, on page A10)
      Five adult dolphins washed ashore in different towns in Ilocos Sur province on Sunday and Monday, but three of them died, and marine mammal experts were pointing to blast fishing as the possible cause of the mass stranding. ...

    • Blast fishing eyed in dolphin stranding in Lingayen Gulf 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 24, 2022, on page A10)
      Marine mammal experts have started investigating the cause of what they described as an “unusual” number of dolphins getting stranded in different coastal towns along the Lingayen Gulf recently. Records from the Bureau of ...

    • Blast fishing in Lingayen Gulf goes on, say villagers 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel; Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 22, 2015, on page A16)
      Perez, a former governor of the Board of Investments and a daughter of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez, said she had been hearing explosions day and night since Sept. 4. “My house shakes whenever there is an explosion,” she ...

    • Blast fishing seen cause of dolphin stranding 

      Adriano, Leilanie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 28, 2014, on page A13)
      Unabated blast fishing in Ilocos Norte province’s waters and its neighboring coastal areas has been identified as one of the major causes of dolphin stranding here, a report of the Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Network ...

    • Blast fishing threatens marine sanctuaries in Tayabas Bay 

      Mallari, Delfin Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 15, 2017, on page A16)
      The fish sanctuaries in the bay fronting Lucena City and Pagbilao and Sariaya towns in Quezon province are showing life as sea turtles, manta rays and assorted fish species are starting to return to these areas, an official ...

    • Blasted Fish 

      (BusinessWorld, July 2, 2018, on page S1/10)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and local officials apprehended on June 29 five fishermen on board two bancas who were using a homemade explosive locally known as Bigas-bigas at vicinity waters off Lamit Bay and Simaron ...

    • Bleaching 'killing' Great Barrier Reef 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, May 31, 2016, on page 11)
      At least 35 percent of corals in the northern and central parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have been destroyed by bleaching, Australian scientists say. The experts from James Cook University ( JCU) say it is the ...

    • Bleaching hits 93% of Great Barrier Reef 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, April 21, 2016, on page B8)
      Sydney- Australias Great Barrier Reef is suffering its worst coral bleaching in recorded history with 93 percent of the World Heritage site affected, scientists said Wednesday, as they revealed the phenomenon is also hitting ...

    • Blessings from a tree 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI (Panay News, June 25, 2020, on page 3)
      From the water we drink to the food that sustains us and the wood we use to build our homes - these are but a few of the many blessings God has given to man from a tree. The DENR 6 through the Provincial ENR Office in ...

    • Blockchain to quantify garbage in dirty rivers 

      Factao, Genivi (The Manila Times, August 14, 2018, on page B5)
      An environmentalist group vowed to clean up Pasig River using blockchain technology, a move that is seen to resolve garbage problems in other parts of the world. Environmentalist and entrepreneur Mariano Jose Diaz Villafuerte ...

    • Bloggers on West PH Sea info drive 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Manila Bulletin, May 1, 2015, on page 20)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is coordinating with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Cebu is tapping bloggers in its information campaign among netizens on the West Philippine Sea issue. DFA's Maritime and ...

    • Bloggers tapped for into campaign on West PH Sea 

      PN; Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Panay News, May 4, 2015, on page 6)
      The information campaign on the West Philippine Sea is now tapping bloggers to penetrate netizens. for the first time, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) launched a modern means to make the public, local and international, ...

    • Bloodless 'military' victory possible in South China Sea 

      Bautista, Faith; Lim, Jeff Nino (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 26, 2016, on page A12)
      Since Spain first conquered the Philippines 495 years ago, this country’s destiny has too often been determined by great foreign powers. However, then President Benigno Aquino III’s suit at the Permanent Court of Arbitration ...

    • Blowback: China's artificial islands 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, December 24, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      The highly respected retired UP professor Clarita Carlos in her Facebook account expressed outrage over the transformation from 2013 to 2015 of the seven reefs in the Spratlys that China has occupied since 1988, into ...

    • 'Blue crabs capital' step up production 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, November 30, 2017, on page 7)
      The town of E. B. Magalona, known as the “blue crabs capital” of Negros Occidental, is stepping up its seafood production. Magalona Mayor Marvin Malacon said in a press conference Tuesday demand for seafood products had ...

    • Blue mussels a 'bane' to Dagupan fish farmers 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 31, 2017, on page B-9)
      The blue mussels introduced in Dagupan rivers a few years ago are now considered a bane to local fish farmers raising signanid (malaga) and grouper (lapulapu). This was bared by Marvin Asis of the City Agriculture Office ...

    • Blue mussels reach Pangasinan coast 

      Visperas, Eva (The Philippine Star, December 31, 2015, on page B-4)
      The blue mussels along the Brazilian and Colombian coasts of South America traversing the Panama Canal have reached coastal waters here by way of the tropical Eastern Pacific. Dr. Michael Rice, a professor of the Department ...

    • Blue mussels reach Pangasinan coast 

      Visperas, Eva (The Philippine Star, December 31, 2015, on page B-4)
      The blue mussels along the Brazilian and Colombian coasts of South America traversing the Panama Canal have reached coastal waters here by way of the tropical Eastern Pacific. Dr. Michael Rice, a professor of the Department ...

    • Blue swimming crab hatchery in Concepcion 

      PN; Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, June 12, 2018, on page 13)
      The establishment of a hatchery for blue swimming crabs at the Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College (NIPSC) campus in Concepcion, Iloilo is seen to increase the marine species’ production. Provincial Agriculturist ...

    • Blue swimming crab industry in Iloilo seen to get boost in new hatchery 

      Castor, Rjay Z. (DailyGuardian, September 2, 2023, on page 1-11)
      The inauguration of the hatchery for blue swimming crabs (locally known as kasag) in the Northern Iloilo State University – Concepcion Campus on Thursday is seen to bolster the wild population of the species and increase ...