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Yolanda-hit seaweed industry has yet to bounce back
The country's seaweed sector is yet to recover six months after super typhoon Yolanda ravaged seaweed plantation in the country, damaging about a third of the country's total euchema supply from Palawan and Eastern Samar. ...
- May 16, 2014
Wetlands and agriculture: Partners for growth: (Part III)
Ang mga sea grasses ay importante rin. Ayon kay Dr. Giovanni Tapang ng Center for Environmental Concerns ng AGHAM,: "an acre of sea grass allows 40,000 fish annually to develop and around 50 million small invertebrates ...
- March 14, 2014
Coral Planting
Soldiers of the Army's 24th Infantry battalion will be planting 20,000 coral reefs in the coastal waters off Barangay Saysain to prepare the possible venue here for the 2015 Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC). Commanding ...
- January 30, 2014
Feed made from microalgae to raise aquaculture production
A feed for aquaculture, microalgae, is eyed as both a highly nutritional and environment-friendly feed that can enhance aquaculture production, a sector that accounts for some ₱20 billion in Philippines' gross value ...
- January 7, 2014
World's smallest freshwater fish species
A lady-lawmaker said government should make an institutional intervention in the preservation of one of the country's freshwater wealth and wonders, the reported endangered Sinarapan, or Tabios as it is known in Bicol. ...
- August 8, 2014
Panatag Shoal still open to local fishermen - Palace
The government has not closed down Panatag Shoal for fishing activity despite between the Philippines and China, Malacañang said on Monday. Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda affrimed that Filipino fishermen are still ...
- March 4, 2014
Red tide alert up in Bataan
Now on its five straight months, the red tide toxin alert along the coastal areas of Bataan is still up, the longest phenomenon to hit the province. " The red tide toxin is still positive with 120mg. STX per 100 gram of ...
- March 20, 2014
B.F.A.R. upgrade
Cebu Rep. Benhur Salimbangon has filed House Bill 2313 to amend Republic Act 8550, the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998, to promote the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) directors and his two assistant ...
- January 6, 2014
Fishermen Ask For Ban Exemption
Citing the ill-effects of super typhoon Yolanda, small scale fishermen in northern Iloilo province are asking Government not to implement the total banning of hulbot-hulbot for the next three years. The Carlesanon Small ...
- January 16, 2014
Free fingerlings
About 117 hectares of fishponds in six barangays here that have been devastated by last summer's drought were given free bangus fingerlings by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.
- October 10, 2014