Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "ocean floor"
Now showing items 1-19 of 19
-
14M tons of trash stuck in ocean floor - study
(The Manila Times,October 10, 2020 , on page B9)Australia’s national science agency has found that there are about 14 million tons of small plastic pieces on the ocean floor. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Csiro) published a world-first ... -
14M tons of wastes litter ocean floor - study
(The Manila Times,October 26, 2021 , on page B6)A boat’s crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan’s Izu Peninsula, but not to catch fish — they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution’s impact on marine life. Tiny floating ... -
41 fishermen nabbed
(The Daily Guardian,May 22, 2015 , on page 9)Forty-one crew of a fishing boat from Misamis Oriental were arrested for illegal fishing early morning yesterday. The 40.07-ton fishing boat named “FB Joshua Marie 88” owned by a certain Lito Duhaylungsod was apprehended ... -
9 held for illegal fishing in Novotas
(The Philippine Star,August 11, 2017 , on page 16)Nine fishermen were arrested yesterday for allegedly fishing in Manila Bay off Navotas using a method that destroys the seabed. They were reportedly caught using the “hulbot” or Danish seine method beyond Pier 2 of the ... -
'Aquaman' warns Sundance of perils of deep-sea mining
(Manila Standard,January 22, 2023 , on page 3A)He is best known as hunky, sea-dwelling superhero “Aquaman,” but actor Jason Momoa brought a stark and sober warning about the perils of deep-sea mining to the Sundance film festival on Friday. The Hawaiian-born A-lister ... -
Artificial reefs are harmful to marine life
(The Daily San Pedro Express,August 8, 1990 , on page 11)Conservationists beware. The scrap tire artificial reefs you place in the seabeds can bring more ecological problems than help poor fisherfolk. Flor Lacanilao, chief of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center ... -
‘China may have collected samples from Benham Rise’
(The Manila Times,April 4, 2017 , on page A1-A2)Philippine Ambassador to China Chito Santa Romana on Monday bared that a Chinese survey ship may have collected maritime samples at Benham Rise. The DFA then asked the Chinese Embassy in Manila to explain the presence of ... -
China trains fishing militia to venture into Spratlys
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 2, 2016 , on page A1-A23)The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan Island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into ... -
Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs
(Manila Bulletin,July 9, 2015 , on page B9)Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a growing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral gardening. It works like this: marine biologists ... -
DFA holds talks on deep sea mining
(The Manila Times,December 28, 2022 , on page A3)The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) recently consulted experts and stakeholders on "deep seabed mining" to facilitate the development of a national position on the matter. The department's Maritime and Ocean Affairs ... -
Environmental 'Davids' fight giant industrial fishers with rocks
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,September 4, 2022 , on page B2)Greenpeace UK said Friday it had dropped 18 large boulders on the seabed in a marine conservation zone off the coast of southwest England to prevent “destructive” industrial fishing. The environmental campaigners sailed ... -
Hijo Resources Corp grows Tagum's new gen of seagrass meadows
(SunStar Philippines,January 25, 2021 , on page 6)The Hijo coastline, which sits in the heart of the Davao Gulf, was home to a rich marine ecosystem, with seagrass meadows in the coastal seabed that serves as a sanctuary for many marine animals. However, when the boom in ... -
Justice prods Palace to assert PH rights over Benham
(Manila Standard,February 19, 2018 , on page A1)Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has rebuffed the position of Malacanang that there is nothing wrong with China naming undersea features in the Philippine Rise. China, Carpio said, has no right to name the ... -
PH wins seat in UN sea body
(Manila Standard,June 17, 2022 , on page A2)The Philippines has won a seat in the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, a body of the United Nations that deals with the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Philippine ... -
Seabed 2030 announces ocean data increases
(The Manila Times,July 6, 2022 , on page B7)The Seabed 2030 project, an international effort to chart the world's entire ocean floor, has increased the ocean data equating to the size of Europe. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between The Nippon Foundation ... -
Seabed quarrying
(Manila Bulletin,September 24, 2022 , on page 2)The Diocese of Imus has expressed concern over the seabed quarryin in Cavite a it warned against its destructive effect on marine life in the area. Imus Bishop Reynaldo Evangelista said they are creating public awareness ... -
Seabed quarrying 'crowding us out', say Manila Bay fisherfolk
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,January 30, 2023 , on page A6)Before daybreak, Edwin Rosales, 33, would set out for Manila Bay to find the best spots to cast his net for “alubaybay,” a variety of sardines and a major income-earner in his coastal village in Limay, Bataan province, a ... -
Vietnam halts scuba diving off popular island to protect coral
(Manila Bulletin,June 29, 2022 , on page 9)Vietnam has banned swimming and scuba diving at a popular central tourist spot in an attempt to revive its damaged coral reef, officials said Monday. The communist nation boasts more than 3,200 kilometers of coastline with ... -
WWF raises concern on reefs' destruction
(Manila Bulletin,January 23, 2014 , on page B8)Strong typhoons have not only affected the lives of Filipinos but coral reefs have also been immensely affected by weather disturbances. The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines (WWF-Philippines) said storm surges like ...