Browsing by Subject "fishing communities"

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    • PH tries to turn tide on fish loss 

      Reuters (Panay News, November 30, 2018, on page B1-B6)
      One of the biggest threats to the sustainability of marine life is plastic pollution and the Philippines is now the third highest contributor to plastic pollution in the world's oceans, according to Greenpeace Philippines. ...

    • PHL's 'banana capital' turns hand to marine resource conservation 

      Carillo, Carmencita (BusinessWorld, May 21, 2015, on page SI/5)
      Dynamite fishing used to be rampant along the waters of Panabo City in Davao del Norte province, until the fishing community got together in 1999 and formed the City Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council ...

    • Poe says 2-m fishing families need govt help 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, April 4, 2016, on page A4)
      Presidential candidate Grace Poe said Sunday the next administration should help close to two-million fishermen and their families get out of poverty although the Philippines is 7th among the top fish-producing countries ...

    • Program for poor fishermen pushed 

      Araneta, Marcon (Manila Standard, February 20, 2015, on page A6)
      At 39.2 percent, the country’s fishery sector exhibited the highest poverty incidence in 2012, based on the National Statistics Coordinating Board 2014 update on poverty. To address this, Senator Cynthia A. Villar called ...

    • Reclamation plan worries Navotas fisherfolk 

      Subingsubing, Krixia (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 18, 2017, on page 1)
      Around 100 members of Navotas City’s fishing community took to the water on Tuesday in protest against a 650-hectare reclamation project on Manila Bay, which they said would displace around 20,000 people. Setting off on ...

    • Rosario rises from coastal damage 

      Giron, Anthony (Manila Bulletin, August 17, 2013, on page 6)
      Fishing communities of this town are beginning to rise from the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the coast of this town earlier this month and, with the help of local officials, their fishing industry is alive again. ...

    • Samar 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, May 23, 1999, on page 12)
      A European Union-assisted project and a Southeast Asian center have signed a memorandum of agreement to undertake a fisheries project to boost the development of Western Samar's coastal communities. Signatories to the MOA ...

    • SEAFDEC promotes abalone farming in Carles 

      PN (Panay News, April 4, 2003, on page 7-6)
      For the first time in the Philippines, the technology to raise abalone in cages is now being adopted by a local fishing community. This is taking place in a far-flung island barangay of Islade Gigantes in Carles, Iloilo. ...

    • SEAFDEC promotes abalone farming in Carles 

      (Panay News, April 4, 2003, on page 7-6)
      For the first time in the Philippines, the technology to raise abalone in cages is now being adopted by a local fishing community. This is taking place in a far-flung island barangay of Isla de Gigantes in Carles, Iloilo. ...

    • SEAFDEC slates stock enhancement consultation 

      Yap, WG (The News Today, July 12, 2005, on page 4)
      Tigbauan, Iloilo - Scientists from Canada, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand and fisheries officers from Southeast Asian countries will gather in Iloilo City from July 13-15, 2005 to formulate a plan of action to restock ...

    • Senate adopts 'sagip saka' measure 

      Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, March 3, 2019, on page A3)
      The House of Representatives led by Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has expressed optimism that the proposed “Sagip Saka Act” will soon get enacted. This came after the Senate adopted House Bill HB 8857 which institutes ...

    • The shared stewardship of the South China Sea 

      (The Manila Times, June 1, 2017, on page A6)
      Every coastal community in the South China Sea has been overfishing and engaging in destructive fishing practices, as mentioned in Boom or Bust: The Future of Fish in the South China Sea (University of British Columbia, ...

    • Shrimp industry leaves Iloilo fisherfolk poor 

      Girao, Viju Jess (Malaya, May 19, 1992, on page 7)
      Remigio Cahilig, 50, laments that he may have to give up fishing. Cahilig is one of this town's remaining 300 fishermen. Tigbauan used to be a thriving fishing community but what remains of it today are just specks of ...

    • Skills, knowledge, resources for farmers and fishermen 

      Yap, Julio Jr. (Panay News, February 1, 2017, on page 10)
      The lives and livelihood of farmers and fisherfolk in Mindanao have been affected by recurrent displacement as a result of sporadic armed clashes. The farming and fishing families in Mindanao are no stranger to both natural ...

    • SMC, Bantay Dagat team up to protect the seas, sustain livelihoods 

      (The Manila Times, June 29, 2021, on page B9)
      San Miguel Corporation has partnered with "Bantay Dagat" (Sea Guardian) in Calatagan, Batangas as part of its corporate-wide initiative to promote healthy seas and ensure sustainable livelihood for small fishing communities, ...

    • ‘Stop coastal reclamations’ 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, October 10, 2016, on page A3)
      Fishermen and farmers from different regions on Sunday called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to stop all coastal reclamations and conversion projects that are damaging the environment and threatening ...

    • Tawilis Patrol,' scientists out to save prized Taal fish 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 11, 2021, on page A10)
      March and April are supposed to be a lean season for the “tawilis” (Sardinella tawilis) market, as catching the freshwater sardine is prohibited to allow it to spawn freely in its natural habitat in Taal Lake. But for ...

    • TMI supports fisherfolk, marine protection in Maco 

      (SunStar Philippines, September 22, 2022, on page 9)
      Aboitiz Power subsidiary Therma Marine, Inc. (TMI) and the Aboitiz Foundation (AFI) recently donated 100 coastal livelihood packages to two fishing communities in Maco, Davao de Oro to help them sustain their primary source ...

    • Turning fishermen into budding sculpture 

      Arceo-Dumlao, Tina (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 23, 2014, on page B2)
      In the case of a group of fishermen from a town in Capiz that was devastated in November last year by Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” 24 little hours were all it took to transform them from typhoon survivors into budding sculptors ...

    • UN agri agency ready to support Phl fisheries sector 

      Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, August 16, 2018, on page B6)
      The United Nations agriculture agency is ready to support governments, including the Philippines, to formulate measures against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and promote management and development of ...