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Sustained effort to attain food sufficiency
While we cannot compete with other better-endowed lands in Southeast Asia like Thailand and Vietnam, we should at least aim to drop the reputation of being the top rice importer. We should involve the farmers in buffer ...
- December 15, 2018
Illegal fishers use 'spotters' to elude arrest - Banias
Illegal fishers have found a way to avoid arrest. They use “spotters”, according to Provincial Administrator Raul Banias. These spotters monitor the Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force’s movements. Through mobile phone text ...
- August 27, 2018
Fishermen 'floated for over an hour' before PCG rescue
Five fishermen whose boat capsized in the waters of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras have been rescued. But they had been floating in the sea for over an hour before Philippine Coast Guard officers – luckily – found them, an agency ...
- December 22, 2018
Protect PH fishers in WPS, Du30 told
President Rodrigo Duterte was urged to protect the Filipino fishermen who were allegedly harassed by the Chinese coast guard at the Scarborough Shoal. “Instead of taking action to protect our fishermen, the Duterte ...
- June 12, 2018
Bantay Dagat nabs 'hulbot' fishermen
Boat captain Edwin Bacas of Barangay Libas, Roxas City and owner Jessie Tayo of Balud, Masbate were accused by the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force of violation of sections 86 and 97 (unauthorized fishing and ban ...
- March 19, 2018
Sardines supply in WV enough, BFAR assures
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Western Visayas said the region continues to produce sufficient volume of sardines. BFAR regional director Remia Aparri said there is no need to worry about the shortage of ...
- November 29, 2018
Fish farmers to SEAFDEC/AQD: Develop indigenous low-cost feed
Iloilo City - Heeding to the long standing call of fish farmers, SEAFDEC/AQD is now putting the development of alternative feed using local ingredients in its priority list of activities. Feed cost is a major component in ...
- March 24, 2018
Four men nabbed for ‘illegal fishing’
Four men were apprehended for illegal fishing in the seawaters of Barangay Chambery, Manapla, Negros Occidental, police said. They were identified as Cesar Teraña, 49, Ruel Rojo, 40, Abolaiz Pandao, 46, and Anthony Escota, ...
- August 4, 2018
Making our seas sustainable
It is hoped that today’s meeting of governors of the provinces sharing the bounties of the Visayan Sea would be able to come up with doable plans to curb exploitative commercial fishing and destructive fishing practices ...
- September 28, 2018
Protect, conserve fishery resources
Beginning next month until February 2019 the Visayan Sea would again be closed to fishing activities. The annual three-month "closed season" aims to replenish sardines herrings and mackerels in the Visayan Sea. catching, ...
- October 19, 2018