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    • 22 rescued Mindoro fishermen seek exclusive rights to fish in Recto Bank 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, June 20, 2019, on page 5)
      The group of Filipino fishermen who were abandoned and left floating in the West Philippine Sea after a Chinese vessel hit their boat has only two requests to President Duterte – for the government to hold the perpetrators ...

    • Agriculture sector falls short of all projections 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, January 11, 2019, on page B1)
      The country’s agriculture sector has failed to meet all expectations for the year, even the much lower growth projection Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has made just a few weeks ago. A review of the sector’s performance ...

    • Amended Fisheries Code ready for implementation 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, September 21, 2015, on page B-2)
      The country’s amended Fisheries Code will be ready for implementation soon since the Department of Agriculture (DA) is scheduled to sign the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) for this legislation this week. The DA ...

    • Amid COVID-19 pandemic, group calls for protection of sardines in PH 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, April 29, 2020, on page B-3)
      Oceana, the largest international non-government organization focused on marine conservation, has called on the Philippine government to establish management mechanisms on the fishing of sardines, which has already become ...

    • BFAR confident PH not source of hepa outbreak in Hawaii 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, September 5, 2016, on page B7)
      The government is confident that the scallops from the Philippines were not the reason for the outbreak of hepatitis in Hawaii last month in contrast with the report of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

    • BFAR lifts sardine fishing ban in Zamboanga waters 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, March 6, 2018, on page B-9)
      Even as the government continuously implements a three-month ban on sardine fishing every year, the sardines industry in Zamboanga still ended up growing P20 billion, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said. The Department ...

    • BFAR opens Laguna tilapia intensive hatchery 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, September 2, 2021, on page B-5)
      The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has successfully conducted the first trial run of its second tilapia intensive hatchery in the CALABARZON region, a development that ...

    • BFAR partners with energy firm for seaweed farming project in Zambales 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, June 7, 2018, on page B10)
      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has partnered with Redondo Peninsula Energy, Inc. (RP Energy), the developer of a 600-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, to allow several ...

    • BFAR teams up with institution to explore biodiversity of Benham Rise 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, May 26, 2016, on page B-2)
      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources(BFAR) has teamed up with two institutions including one international organization to jointly explore the biodiversity of Benham Rise, which covers the country's newest territory. ...

    • BFAR to tap new catch documentation system to fight illegal fishing 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, February 15, 2020, on page B-4)
      The Philippine government can soon utilize a new catch documentation system – which took five years to be developed – in addressing illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUUF). A statement showed that the Department ...

    • Boracay Water eyes more sewer connections 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, September 28, 2018, on page B-5)
      Boracay Island Water Company (Boracay Water) is eyeing more customers following the recently issued order of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) directing hotels, resort, and other establishments to ...

    • Boracay Water sees upward adjustment in this year's capex 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, June 23, 2018, on page B-9)
      Boracay Island Water Company, Inc. (Boracay Water) may allot more of its P2.4 billion capital expenditure (capex) — which was supposed to be rolled out within a five-year timeframe — just for this year. This, as the company ...

    • Candidates urged to come up with ‘blue agenda’ on sustainable fisheries 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, April 23, 2016, on page B-2)
      Presidential candidates are urged to adopt a "blue agenda" in order to build a stronger fishery sector in the next six years. In a statement, non-governmental organizations (NGO) has called on the presidential candidates ...

    • Crackdown on rising prices 

      Cahiles-Magkilat, Bernie; Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, August 24, 2018, on page 1-11)
      Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said there was nothing wrong with the forthcoming importation of 17,000 metric tons (MT) of galunggong, which will be sold directly to local markets — the first time it will ...

    • Creation of fisheries dep't pushed 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, December 8, 2020, on page B-5)
      A group of agricultural stakeholders has resurrected the call for the creation of a separate Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR), saying that Filipinos’ high protein requirement is already enough reason ...

    • DA asks for P218-B budget for 2018 due to Benham Rise work 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, May 19, 2017, on page B-11)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has pumped up its budget proposal for next year to P218 billion as it intends to seek a separate fund for the protection of Benham Rise, a 25-million hectare shallow continental shelf ...

    • DA assures enough food supply for Metro Manila’s 14-M population 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B.; San Juan, Alexandria Dennise (Manila Bulletin, March 14, 2020, on page 1-8)
      As President Duterte placed Metro Manila under “community quarantine” following the rise in local transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the country’s top agriculture official assured that Metro Manila, home ...

    • DA forges fisheries deal with Papua New Guinea 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, February 4, 2019, on page B-9)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), has forged a deal on fisheries development with the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) of the Independent State of Papua New ...

    • DA lowers year-end growth forecast as typhoons, El Niño wipe out ₱16-B in total farm output 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, January 4, 2020, on page 1-6)
      The country’s agriculture sector had so far lost as much as P16 billion worth of 2019’s total farm output to El Niño and several typhoons, with the last minute damages incurred in December alone prompting Agriculture ...

    • DA to set aside ₱1-B for loan assistance to farmers, fisherfolks 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, April 5, 2020, on page B1)
      Though it hasn’t yet secured the approval of President Rodrigo Duterte for the ₱31 billion supple-mental budget it is asking from the national government, the Department of Agriculture (DA) already knows exactly where to ...