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    • 6 bodies from Samar boat blast retrieved 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, August 28, 2022, on page B14)
      Retrieval teams found four more human remains off Tarangnan waters in Samar bringing to six the total number of dead bodies from the boat that exploded during a recent sea encounter between government troops and a group ...
    • BBM's fishing vessels monitoring measures lauded 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, June 27, 2023, on page B16)
      Fisherfolk and environmental groups have recently lauded President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for directing the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to work closely with the Office of the ...
    • BFAR earmarks P58M for Eastern Visayas fisherfolk 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, May 22, 2023, on page B16)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has allocated P58.4 million for the livelihood projects of fisherfolk in the poorest municipalities in Eastern Visayas for this year. BFAR regional information officer Christine ...
    • Call to declare Panaon protected seascape aired 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, May 21, 2023, on page B19)
      An international environmental group called on Congress for the immediate passage of a bill that will declare the island at the southernmost tip of Southern Leyte as a protected seascape under the Expanded National Integrated ...
    • DENR halts Tacloban reclamation project 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, April 9, 2023, on page A3)
      The Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources regional office temporarily stopped an ongoing reclamation project in this city’s Cancabato Bay due to lack of Environmental Clearance ...
    • Eastern Visayas waters clear of red tide 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, July 23, 2022, on page B16)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Eastern Visayas (BFAR8) announced that three waters in the region are now deemed as red-tide free just a week after they were declared positive of toxins that cause paralytic ...
    • Elderly mangrove planter recognized 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, May 4, 2023, on page B16)
      Planting had always been his passion since he was a child and since 2013, when super typhoon “Yolanda” battered his community in Matalom, Leyte, Geldardo Dabasol decided to start planting mangroves along the shores of ...
    • Panaon marine biodiversity gets boost 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, February 5, 2023, on page B13)
      The campaign to declare Panaon Island in Southern Leyte as a protected seascape under the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act gets a boost with the filing of a bill in the Senate. Senate Bill 1690 has ...
    • Red tide invades Eastern Visayas waters 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, October 14, 2022, on page B15)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Eastern Visayas reported two more waters in the region as infected with red tide toxins. The BFAR-8 said Cancabato Bay in Tacloban City and Irong-Irong Bay in Catbalogan ...
    • San Pedro Bay gets red tide anew 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, January 30, 2021, on page B16)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Eastern Visayas announced on Friday that the San Pedro Bay in Basey, Samar has been included in the shellfish ban following the detection of “red tide” in the bay. ...
    • Seaweed farmers apply eco-friendly tech on farms 

      Recuerdo, Elmer (Daily Tribune, August 20, 2022, on page B15)
      Eight months after typhoon “Odette” washed out their homes and livelihood, seaweed farmers in Dawahon island in Bato, Leyte and slowly getting back on their feet as the propagules that were given to them earlier have ...