Browsing by Subject "compressors"

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    • 31 fishers caught for illegal 'diwal' harvest 

      Heredia, John S. (Panay News, April 15, 2015, on page 10-45)
      Philippine Coast Guard personnel on Monday arrested 31 fishers for illegally harvesting diwal (angel wing clam) off the coast of Barangay Talon. The fishers violated City Ordinance No. 016-2007, which provides guidelines ...

    • 48 illegal fishers nabbed in Concepcion 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza A. (Panay News, January 23, 2015, on page 2-14)
      Forty-eight fishermen onboard 14 motorboats were apprehended for illegal fishing off Tagubanhan Island in Barangay Bagongon, Concepcion town. The Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force said the fishermen were using active gears ...

    • Blasted Fish 

      (BusinessWorld, July 2, 2018, on page S1/10)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and local officials apprehended on June 29 five fishermen on board two bancas who were using a homemade explosive locally known as Bigas-bigas at vicinity waters off Lamit Bay and Simaron ...

    • The business of fixing Lingayen Gulf 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 6, 2013, on page A17)
      Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used ...

    • Coastal protection 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Manila Bulletin, October 20, 2012, on page 13)
      Elements of the Baras Municipal Police in this province have been lauded by local fisherfolk for its intensified campaign to protect marine resources from abuse. This as police rounded up 12 people allegedly engaged in ...

    • Crackdown on illegal logging, fishing in E. Visayas 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, October 12, 2017, on page B-9)
      The Philippine National Police (PNP) regional office here has intensified its fight against illegal logging and fishing that has resulted in the arrest of 92 suspects. From October 5 to 8 alone, the police conducted 69 ...

    • Dynamite fishing suspects charged 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza (Panay News, September 27, 2015, on page 4)
      Three fishermen from Barangay Buenavista in the coastal town of Carles were accused of dynamite fishing by the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force. Docketed as criminal case number 3979, the complaint about the ...

    • FirstGen bankrolls Batangas marine ecosystem project 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 17, 2015, on page B3-3-B3-4)
      Rey Manalo is an active and vocal advocate of the Bantay Dagat (Sea Patrol) program in Mabini, Batangas. Quite a departure from his younger days when Manalo was a menace to the marine ecosystem of Batangas, being a muro-ami ...

    • Fishermen enslaved in Palawan rescued 

      Mayol, Ador Vincent S. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 23, 2015, on page A13)
      A fish trader and his recruiter are facing charges of human trafficking after they allegedly forced 78 fishermen from Bohol and Cebu to work without pay. Ramil Noval and Yulo “Boy” Plecerda, both from Lapu-Lapu City, were ...

    • Fishkill reported in 3 BAtangas areas 

      Lesaba, Marrah Erika (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 21, 2011, on page A15)
      the Taal Lake were safe to eat following a massive fishkill that spawned an industry nightmare, hundreds of “bangus” (milkfish) were again seen floating in at least three lakeside villages on Monday, police said. SPO3 Larry ...

    • From foes to friends of tropical fish 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 19, 2018, on page A8)
      Verde Island sits right in the middle of the Verde Island Passage (VIP), a strait between Luzon and Mindoro islands that biodiversity experts declared in 2005 the Earth’s “center of the center of marine shorefish biodiversity.” ...

    • Illegal fishers caught 

      Dematera, Cet (The Philippine Star, October 20, 2012, on page A-24)
      At least 15 fishermen found engaging in illegal fishing were arrested by joint elements of the local police and Bantay Dagat in Sorsogon and Camarines Norte over the week, reports said. The fishermen were caused using ...

    • Missing fisherman found dead 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, October 28, 2020, on page 2-11)
      The fishermen who went missing over the weekend has been found. However, Ernie Tayo, 39, of Barangay Lantangan, Carles, Iloilo, was already lifeless when his fellow fishermen discovered his body at the shoreline of Bantigue ...

    • Muro ami fishermen rescued in Palawan 

      Mosqueda, Mars W. Jr. (Manila Bulletin, January 23, 2015, on page 13)
      Twenty-six Cebuano fishermen, claiming that they were illegally recruited and physically abused by the trader – a fellow-Cebuano — who owns their fishing vessel, were rescued by authorities in Palawan. The fishermen claimed ...

    • Rising in trafficked fishermen alarms Tawi-Tawi authorities 

      Soriano, Jake (Malaya, April 21, 2014, on page B1-B6)
      Tawi-Tawi authorities are alarmed at the growing number of fishermen from the Visayas who end up here after being recruited by human trafficking syndicates to engage in dangerous compressor diving. The latest case involves ...

    • Town under state of calamity due to red tide 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza A. (The Daily Guardian, September 28, 2017, on page 2-7)
      The coastal town of Carles, Iloilo, which is known for its shellfishes, is under state of calamity due to red tide which hit four barangays in Gigantes Island recently. The Sangguniang Bayan of Carles will pass a resolution ...