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Our vanishing 'galunggong'
Two months ago, I had a Zoom meeting with fisherfolk from Zambales who complained that their fish catch had been dwindling because huge Chinese trawlers have been scooping the fish in their traditional fishing grounds in ...
- July 22, 2021
Revived hatchery signals major step towards PHL milkfish fry sufficiency
The embattled milkfish industry in the Philippines got a shot in the arm as the first rehabilitated hatchery in Western Visayas, which is expected to produce 5 to 10 million bangus fry every year, started its operations ...
- May 7, 2021
Gov't urged to raise fish import volume
Increasing the volume of fish imports and opening up the importation to more players are among the short term solutions to address rising fish prices, according to an economist. In a virtual press briefing yesterday, ...
- September 9, 2021
Farmers, fisherfolk lament gov’t’s broken promises
President Duterte had promised in previous editions of his State of the Nation Addressed that under his administration, the agriculture sector would be modernized, food prices would be lowered and that the “Plant, Plant, ...
- July 29, 2021
BFAR gives bangus fingerlings to Iloilo, Capiz beneficiaries
A total of 400,00 milkfish (bangus) fingerlings were distributed by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to the fishpond and fish cage operators in Iloilo and Capiz out of the one million stock that will ...
- August 16, 2021
Anti-China alliance coalescing in South China Sea
Major powers are wading deeper into the South China Sea in a series of moves that promise to rile China while answering US calls for like-minded nations to counter jointly Beijing's rising assertiveness in the crucial and ...
- May 11, 2021