Browsing by Subject "ammonia"

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    • Aquaculture poisoning Taal Lake 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, February 4, 2010, on page A1-A6)
      The calm waters of Taal Lake are deceiving, and what lies below may be toxic. Fish cages have poisoned the sediments below while surface waters remain relatively safe for fisheries, according to a study made by the University ...

    • Baguio rivers remain heavily polluted–DENR 

      Cabreza, Vincent (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 29, 2019, on page A12)
      Two main rivers in the summer capital remain heavily polluted due in part to unregulated hog raising operations and sludge coming from Baguio’s public market and slaughterhouse, the Department of Environment and Natural ...

    • BAR develops new oyster culture technology 

      Valencia, Czeriza (The Philippine Star, March 3, 2013, on page B6)
      The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is developing a culture process for an oyster specie found in Surigao to increase local supply and tap its export potential to China and South Korea where there is demand. BAR and ...

    • BFAR says Masbate waters red tide-free 

      Gonzales, Anna Leah (Manila Standard, February 19, 2015, on page B6)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources on Wednesday lifted its red tide alert on the coastal waters of Milagros in Masbate but warned that shellfish collected in Bataan are still not safe for consumption. In its ...

    • BFAR: Pollution caused fish kill 

      Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, October 13, 2019, on page A4)
      Water pollution and not blast fishing caused the recent case of fish kill off Las Piñas and Parañaque in Manila Bay where at least 30 tubs of dead fish were found along the coastline, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...

    • Fish kill hits Lake Buhi; ₱2.1M worth of tilapia lost 

      Arguelles, Mar S. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 28, 2020, on page A8)
      About 20 metric tons of tilapia worth P2.1 million have been lost in a fish kill that hit Lake Buhi in Camarines Sur province after Typhoon “Quinta” (international name: Molave) pummeled Bicol on Sunday and Monday, the ...

    • Fish kill reported in Ilocos 

      Lazaro, Freddie G. (Manila Bulletin, June 22, 2011, on page 13)
      A new fish kill happened last week, on Mestizo River in Barangay Callaguip, Caoayan, Ilocos Sur, fisheries officials reported yesterday. Bureau of Fishery and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Officer Benny Saraos who is based in ...

    • Fish too suffer from stress 

      Visperas, Eva (The Philippine Star, July 23, 2015, on page B-7)
      Stress in fish is caused by different factors, particularly the sudden change of salinity at sea during incessant rains, according to Westly Rosario, chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)'s National ...

    • Fishkill hits cages in Taal Lake; owners lose ₱5M 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 6, 2018, on page A12)
      The local government of Agoncillo town in Batangas province will distribute tilapia fingerlings to local cage operators affected by the recent fishkill in Taal Lake. The incidence of “fish mortality,” a term preferred by ...

    • Gov't bans fish harvesting, sale in 7 Pampanga towns 

      Regala, Franco (Manila Bulletin, August 4, 2015, on page 14)
      In the wake of reports of fish in several towns om this province in the past weeks, the provincial government has enjoined mayors of affected areas to temporarily prohibit harvesting and selling of fish and other aquatic ...

    • Guimaras fears algal bloom 

      Angelo, F. Allan L. (The Daily Guardian, January 28, 2014, on page 1-10)
      The Guimaras provincial government demanded the owner of the sunken ship which triggered another oil spill in the island-province to immediately refloat the vessel. Engr. Raymund Moderes, head of the Guimaras Task Force ...

    • Incidents of Fish Kills Reported in Bulacan and Ilocos Sur 

      Velez, Freddie c.; Lazaro, Frances G. (Manila Bulletin, June 5, 2011, on page 16)
      Fish kill incidents widened this weekend with reports of dead fish floating in some parts of Angat Dam in Bulacan and Mestizo River in Ilocos Sur, authorities said Saturday. The Sagip Sierra Madre Environment Society Inc. ...

    • Japan firm seeks to spawn salmon farm revolution 

      Natsuko, Fukue (Manila Standard, March 1, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      In a mountainous area near Tokyo, the water in a tank is a murk of writhing grey salmon, slithering past each other as they angle for food. They are part of an experiment that Sogo, chief operating officer at FRD Japan, ...

    • Laguna Lake authority to rehabilitate reclaimed sites in Taguig City 

      Mogato, Anna Gabriela (BusinessWorld, June 27, 2018, on page S1/2)
      The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) will take over reclaimed areas in Taguig City which were previously occupied by two companies found to have been illegally dumping waste on the sites which threatens to seep ...

    • Lake Sebu fish kill claims P3.9m worth of tilapia 

      (Manila Standard, June 29, 2016, on page A7)
      Around P3.9 million worth of tilapia were destroyed in another major fish kill in lakes Seloton and Sebu in Lake Sebu town in South Cotabato. Justina Navarrete, chief of the South Cotabato Office of the Provincial Agriculturist ...

    • Masinloc-Oyon bay passes water quality parameters 

      Flora, Ian Ocampo (SunStar Philippines, May 12, 2021, on page 2-15)
      The water quality of the 7,558-hectare Masinloc Oyon Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape (MOBPLS) in the towns of Masinloc and Palauig in Zambales has passed the water quality parameters of containing acceptable levels ...

    • Negros ethanol plant suspended over fishkill 

      Matus, Carmel Loise (Manila Bulletin, August 13, 2015, on page A8)
      Environment authorities suspended the operations of an ethanol plant of Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corp. (URSMC) after finding that its untreated wastewater caused fishkill that economically dislocated 200 fishing ...

    • SEAFDEC develops early warning system for pollution in mariculture parks 

      (The News Today, September 30, 2008, on page C2)
      The Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is developing an early warning system to guard against the negative impacts of fish cages in mariculture parks. This is certainly ...

    • Seafdec develops early warning system vs pollution in mariculture parks 

      (The Daily Guardian, September 29, 2008, on page 3-6)
      The Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is developing an early warning system to guard against the negative impacts of fish cages in mariculture parks. This is certainly ...

    • Stinky seaweed 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, May 31, 2018, on page B-9)
      The French government is preparing a plan to deal with a new invasion of stinky seaweed that is covering the beaches of some its islands in the Caribbean, causing health problems for residents and threatening key fishing ...