Browsing by Place "Pacific Ocean"

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    • Boats idle, workers lose jobs as GenSan reels from tuna ban 

      Zonio, Aquiles (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 25, 2010, on page A10)
      Gone were the days when fishing boats of the Amadeo Fishing Corp. (AFC) sailed daily to catch tuna. Now, most of its fishing vessels are grounded in the company’s private wharf in the coastal village of Calumpang here. ...

    • Despite La Niña, fish ports' unloading volume up 

      Lagare, Jordeene B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 25, 2022, on page B2)
      The volume of fish unloaded at regional ports rose by 4.4 percent amid the La Niña phenomenon, the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) said. Total fish unloading volume or the volume of fish shipped to different ...

    • Fisheries department pushed 

      Sarmiento, Romer S. (BusinessWorld, September 30, 2010, on page S1/6)
      Tuna industry leaders in the South Cotabato-Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-Sarangani-General Santos City (Socsksargen) region have urged the current 15th Congress to craft a law elevating to department status the Bureau of Fisheries ...

    • Fishers appeal tuna ban 

      Sarmiento, A. S. (BusinessWorld, February 16, 2010, on page S1/6)
      The tuna fishers' federation here has appealed to an international body to exempt small-and medium-sized purse seine vessels from the fishing ban in portions of the Pacific Ocean, noting that the number of workers displaced ...

    • Fishing areas 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, September 12, 2012, on page 16)
      An international fishery body overseeing the tuna fishing areas within the Pacific Ocean is planning to adopt stricter regulatory measures in a bid to resolve the continuing depletion of tuna stocks in the area. Glenn ...

    • Healthy oceans: Keeping Asia and the Pacific afloat 

      Alisjahbana, Armida Salsiah (The Manila Times, May 15, 2020, on page A6)
      Memories of idyllic beaches and sonorous waves may seem far away while we remain at home. Yet, we need not look far to appreciate the enduring history of the ocean in Asia and the Pacific. For generations, the region has ...

    • High seas treaty on allocating fish across jurisdiction 

      Tolentino, Amado Jr (The Manila Times, June 11, 2022, on page A4-A5)
      On Dec. 24, 2017, the UN General Assembly voted to convene a multi-year process to develop a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity, now referred to as the Treaty on Biodiversity in ...

    • Higher tuna catch expected in Q4 

      (BusinessWorld, October 16, 2012, on page S1/6)
      The Philippines should see a higher tuna catch starting next month after the country deployed 36 high-seas fishing vessels to the Pacific, a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) official said. BFAR Director ...

    • Japan may dump radioactive water into the sea-minister 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 11, 2019, on page A14)
      Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada said on ...

    • Lianga Bay shellfish positive for red tide, public told 

      Crismundo, Mike U. (Manila Bulletin, June 22, 2019, on page 10)
      The public is being warned against eating shellfish collected from Lianga Bay in the Pacific Ocean facing province of Surigao del Sur, as these have tested positive for red tide toxins. In the latest bulletin issued by the ...

    • Local tuna industry reeling from ban; jobless workers on rise 

      Sarmiento, Romer S. (BusinessWorld, January 26, 2010, on page S1/3)
      Players in the local tuna industry are now feeling the pinch of the closure of the high seas in portions of the Pacific Ocean, with one fishing company officially informing the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) of ...

    • PH warned anew of climate impact 

      Enano, Jhesset O. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 30, 2019, on page A19)
      More than 100 scientists from 36 countries worked on this report on the ocean, citing nearly 7,000 scientific papers and eliciting more than 31,000 comments during the reviews. The report observed that the global ocean, ...

    • Prawn: A vital export commodity 

      Yap, Jun (Daily Tribune, January 1, 2021, on page B15)
      Farmed prawn has become a vital export commodity for the Philippines, among the known variety that has a high demand is vannamei, a prawn of the eastern Pacific Ocean which is caught or farmed for food. While production ...

    • Rampant illegal fishing in Quezon waters alarms group 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 4, 2022, on page A7)
      Rampant destructive fishing methods were again reported in the bays of Tayabas and Lamon in Quezon province, prompting an environmental group to urge the local government to curb the illegal activities. Jay Lim, project ...

    • Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, August 16, 2015, on page C-8)
      Researchers returned on Sunday from mapping and sampling a massive swirling cluster of trash floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as the Dutch-born crew works to refine a clean-up strategy it will roll out globally. ...

    • Rody handling of WPS issue, oil tanks hailed 

      Gulle, Jimbo (Manila Standard, June 25, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      President Rodrigo Duterte handled the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea “carefully and decisively,” Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said on Friday, a day after the outgoing Chief Executive ...

    • Shark lands in golf course 

      Associated Press (AP) (Tempo, October 27, 2012, on page 2)
      Golf club employees in Southern California came to the rescue when a shark dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee. San Juan Hills Golf Club operations director Melissa McCormack says a course marshal ...

    • Task force formed to assist local tuna industry workers 

      (BusinessWorld, February 23, 2010, on page S2/5)
      The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has created Task Force GENSAN to facilitate the timely delivery of services and interventions for workers in the local tuna industry which was affected by a two-year ban against ...

    • Tourists rescue sea turtle off Aurora 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, June 25, 2022, on page A10)
      A mother sea turtle has been successfully returned to the Pacific Ocean after it was rescued in Barangay Ditawini, Dinalungan in Aurora province by local tourists from the upland town of Ambaguio in this province. Nuepe ...

    • What ails Tuna? 

      Somera, Den (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 2, 2010, on page B2)
      January ended as a big disappointment. One stock that ended similarly for the period was Alliance Tuna International Inc. (TUNA). Plummeting like a falling hard rock, TUNA’s share price was already down 18.26 percent last ...