Browsing by Place "La Union"

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    • Fishfolk receive free fingerlings 

      Beleo, Erwin (Manila Bulletin, June 30, 2015, on page 14)
      More than 15,000 milkfish fingerlings were given free yesterday to 53 fishpond operators as livelihood assistance after being hit by the dry season last March in Barangays Biday, Bangcusay, and Dalumpinas. Dolores Gurtiza, ...

    • Fishponds drying up in La Union 

      Elias, Jun (The Philippine Star, March 14, 2015, on page A-23)
      The fishponds in Barangays Biday, Bangcusay and Dalumpinas Este have low water level, city fishery coordinator Dolores Gurtiza said. Gurtiza said the tributaries of Carlatan River, which supplies water to fishponds, has ...

    • Fishponds in La Union brace for dry months 

      Beleo, Erwin (Manila Bulletin, February 27, 2015, on page 18)
      Fishpond operators and workers here have expressed apprehension of how the summer months ahead will adversely affect their livelihood as some ponds have already been dried up this early. Dionisio F. Camarao, a fishpond ...

    • Fluctuating output brings seaweed prices down 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, November 29, 2017, on page A1-A4)
      A cycle of boon and bane is bringing down the price of dried seaweed. "The low buying price is caused by production fluctuation from late 2015 until early 2017," said Dr. Nicomedes Decomenden of the Bureau of Fisheries and ...

    • Free fingerlings 

      Belego, Erwin G. (Manila Bulletin, October 10, 2014, on page 14)
      About 117 hectares of fishponds in six barangays here that have been devastated by last summer's drought were given free bangus fingerlings by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

    • Gov't maps out strategy to grow seaweed sector 

      Simeon, Louise Maureen (The Philippine Star, April 9, 2017, on page B4)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to craft the country’s seaweed roadmap following huge export demand from one of the local aquaculture commodities. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) targets to ...

    • How much trash can you pick up from the beach in 5 minutes? 

      (Manila Standard, June 23, 2019, on page C1)
      The specially curated show, dubbed “Alon!,” shows photographs of surfers from the country’s six leading surfing communities—Siargao, La Union, Baler, Mati in Davao, Gubat in Sorsogon, and Sabang Daguitan in Leyte—each ...

    • Illegal fishing charges field vs 17 Vietnamese nationals 

      Lazaro, Freddie (Manila Bulletin, September 15, 2016, on page 7)
      Vigan City, Ilocos Sur - The police filed poaching charges poaching against 17 Vietnamese fishermen arrested at the West Philippine Sea last week. It was reported that the Vietnamese vessels equipped with "superlights' ...

    • Ilocos salt industry losing its savor 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 16, 2021, on page A8)
      Rene Aruelo, 52, was in his teens in the 1980s when he would rake mud at a fishpond in a village in La Union province facing the Lingayen Gulf. His family, like most households in their community, would troop to the pond ...

    • ‘Inday’ to bring more rains, flood: 24 Luzon, Visayas provinces placed under general flood advisory 

      Ruiz, Ellalyn de Vera; Recuenco, Aaron (Manila Bulletin, July 19, 2018, on page 1-4)
      With the forecast, a general flood advisory has been issued over several areas in Luzon and in the Visayas as threats of flooding remain high. Meanwhile, a fisherman in Batangas went missing as several parts of the country ...

    • Is tobacco the next 'miracle crop'? 

      Flora, Ian Ocampo (SunStar Philippines, May 6, 2018, on page 6)
      Tobacco juice, tobacco dust juice and tobacco lime are not only for traditional organic insecticide used in domestic gardening but also for mainstream commercial agriculture. Tobacco has been proven effective against a ...

    • Kick off in Guimaras: SEAFDEC seeks to lower cost of aquafeeds 

      (DailyGuardian, May 22, 2019, on page 7-13)
      A new feed formulation that hopes to lower the cost of fish farming and make fish more affordable to the masses kicked off with the field-testing of the low-cost feed at the Igang Marine Station of the Southeast Asian ...

    • La Union board declares calamity state to deal with oil spill 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 2, 2013, on page A8)
      The provincial board of La Union has declared the province under a state of calamity to enable towns affected by the oil spill supposedly from a sunken vessel or another ship to tap their calamity funds for cleanup operations. ...

    • La Union placed under state of calamity due to oil spill 

      Elias, Jun (The Philippine Star, March 4, 2013, on page A-28)
      The provincial board of La Union, upon the request of Gov. Manuel Ortega, has approved a resolution placing the province under a state of calamity due to the oil spill. Vice Gov. Aureo Nisce told The STAR that provincial ...

    • La Union’s poor fishers get safer fiberglass boats 

      Garcia, William Jun (The Manila Times, December 13, 2018, on page A7)
      The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) has given the first 36 fiberglass-reinforced plastic fishing boats to six coastal towns here for the marginal beneficiary-fisherfolk’s ...

    • Mayor orders probe into marine damage caused by grounded ship 

      Iñigo, Leizle B.; Beleo, Erwin G. (Manila Bulletin, January 26, 2014, on page 15)
      A month after a cargo vessel ran aground in a coral reef in the coast of Barangay Lingsat, this city, authorities will begin an investigation into the likely environmental damage caused by the ship. San Fernando City Mayor ...

    • New fiberglass boats for La Union fishermen 

      Beleo, Erwin (Manila Bulletin, December 13, 2018, on page 8)
      The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) has distributed 36 fiberglass – reinforced, plastic fishing boats to boost the livelihood of marginal fishermen in six coastal towns. BFAR ...

    • A nutritious noodle made from bangus scrap and seaweed 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, February 21, 2010, on page B-4)
      Enriched noodles can be produced from scraps of milkfish and Gracilaria seaweed. This product has been developed by Aurora Afalla, a researcher of the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU), a multi-campus ...

    • Oil sludge removal starts in Ilocos 

      Sotelo, Yolanda; Cardinoza, Gabriel; Arzadon, Cristina; Balbin, Leoncio Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 1, 2013, on page A20)
      Using shovels, rakes and dust pans, and even spoons, government employees, residents, fishermen and volunteers from different towns of La Union tediously scooped and gathered the coagulated oil that had reached coastal ...

    • Oil spill affects more towns in Ilocos Norte 

      Lagasca, Charlie; Molina, Teddy; Catindig, Raymund (The Philippine Star, March 5, 2013, on page A-19)
      An oil spill in the waters of Ilocos Sur and La Union has spread to three more towns in ilocos Norte. Reports yesterday said the oil spill has reached coastal villages in the towns of Currimao, Badoc and Bacarra. Arthur ...