Browsing Aquatic News Index by Author "Yan, Gregg"

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    • BFAR team makes global headlines in fish culturing 

      van Beijnen, Jonah; Yan, Gregg (The Philippine Star, June 2, 2019, on page B4)
      Globally, the culture of carnivorous marine finfish and crustaceans receives the most interest from constitutional investors, with species groups like sea bass, salmon and shrimp showing double-digit growth rates. These ...

    • Crocodiles: Caught in the jaws of extinction 

      Yan, Gregg (The Daily Guardian, February 15, 2013, on page 5-7)
      Two decades later I found myself beside the world's largest captive crocodile, venerable Lolong, in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur. As a team from the DOST measured him, I realized that crocodiles actually lived way before many ...

    • Crocodiles: Caught in the jaws of extinction 

      Yan, Gregg (The Daily Guardian, February 22, 2013, on page B12-B4)
      Two decades later I found myself beside the world's largest captive crocodile, venerable Lolong, in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur. As a team from the DOST measured him, I realized that crocodiles actually lived way before many ...

    • The fight to rehabilitate Philippine coral reefs 

      Yan, Gregg (Manila Standard, February 11, 2010, on page D7)
      Through my foggy mask, I make out my dive buddy giving the go signal. I back-roll, in-gloriously, into the turquoise waters in northern Batangas in the Philippines. Scant seconds pass as I find my bearings, but soon the ...

    • Finding loro: The truth about parrotfish 

      Yan, Gregg (Manila Bulletin, April 25, 2021, on page B-7)
      Over the past years, social media posts have been circulating about the need to avoid parrotfish, popularly called loro or molmol in public markets. These posts have been shared tens of thousands of times with the best of ...

    • Finding Loro: The truth about parrotfish 

      Yan, Gregg (DailyGuardian, April 19, 2021, on page 8-10)
      Parrotfish are any of the 90 or so fish species belonging to the wrasse (pronounced rass) family. They’re common sights in tropical coral reefs because of their relatively large sizes (usually six inches to over three feet ...

    • Here be Dugongs 

      Yan, Gregg (The Daily Guardian, June 11, 2018, on page 6-7)
      With underwater photographer Danny Ocampo and expert guides from the Tagbanua tribe, we’re finally hoping for some downtime with a dugong. Dugongs are legendary sea creatures, having inspired lonely seamen’s ‘sightings’ ...

    • How Tagbanua tribesmen protect the 'mermaids' of Palawan 

      Yan, Gregg (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 20, 2019, on page A16)
      Wearing fins from recycled plastic containers, tough Tagbanua tribesmen have become the protectors of the dugong, those gentle marine mammals that have become prey to poachers in Northern Palawan. The dugong (scientific ...

    • Invasive alien fishes cause the extinction of native fishes 

      Yan, Gregg (BusinessMirror, August 29, 2021, on page A15)
      According to the Asean Biodiversity Outlook 2, Asean member states have identified 112 invasive alien species affecting forests, agriculture and aquatic ecosystems. “Given that we have all these introduced species already ...

    • Tubbataha a year after the scarring by US Navy ship 

      Yan, Gregg (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2014, on page A1-A12)
      On Jan. 17, 2013, the USS Guardian, a 68-meter-long US Navy warship, entered Tubbataha to accidentally plough into its South Atoll, home to the last 8,000 or so Philippine Black Noddies, which are critically endangered ...

    • Where have our native fish gone? 

      Yan, Gregg (DailyGuardian, August 19, 2021, on page 8-10)
      According to the ASEAN Biodiversity Outlook 2, ASEAN member states have identified 112 invasive alien species affecting forests, agriculture and aquatic ecosystems. “Given that we have all these introduced species already ...

    • Where have our native fish gone? 

      Yan, Gregg (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2021, on page B5)
      According to the Asean Biodiversity Outlook 2, Asean member states have identified 112 invasive alien species affecting forests, agriculture and aquatic ecosystems. “Given that we have all these introduced species already ...

    • Where there are crocs, there will always be fish 

      Yan, Gregg (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 17, 2013, on page A1-A15)
      "They look like dinosaurs!" I screamed, gaping at live crocodiles for the first time with my brother, Jaypee. This was Manila Zoo in the 1900s and to pint-sized kids, 14-foot crocodiles seemed giant, ancient and utterly ...