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PH shrimp industry banks on gov’t support to sustain growth
Filipino shrimp producers are banking on government support to sustain the industry’s growth in recent years. Industry players have gathered for the three-day 12th Philippine National Shrimp Congress at the SMX Convention ...
- November 22, 2019
Calida seeks dismissal of kalikasan petition on WPS
Solicitor General Jose Calida has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss the petition of fishermen seeking to compel the government to protect disputed shoals in the West Philippine Sea where Chinese fishermen have ...
- July 2, 2019
BFAR revokes commercial fishing vessel license
For the first time, the government has permanently revoked the license of a fishing vessel for repeatedly encroaching municipal waters. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has revoked the license of FV ...
- January 19, 2020
Law enforcers deployed to protect 'Ludong'
As part of the government’s conservation effort, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in the region has deployed law enforcers to protect the most expensive fresh water species. BFAR Director Milagros Morales ...
- November 4, 2015
BFAR plans more floating fish cages in mariculture parks
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will expand marine agriculture (mariculture) zones in Eastern Visayas by setting up floating fish cages in Leyte’s open seas. The Fisheries bureau will also redevelop ...
- September 23, 2010
Fisheries Bureau, USAID to battle illegal fishing
In a move to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the country, the United States and Philippine governments brought together 135 participants from various sectors to measure and understand IUU fishing ...
- September 5, 2020
A local company's bayanihan helps push aquaculture industry forward
Meet Santeh, a company specializing in the production of fish feeds. Beginning in 1985 with shrimp feeds under its Tateh brand name, Santeh grew its company by developing other feeds for different fish species like tilapia, ...
- June 7, 2010
SEAFDEC AQD laid the cornerstone for its Enclosed Wet Laboratory
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) held the cornerstone-laying for its Enclosed Wet Laboratory is a component project of the Laboratory for Advanced Aquaculture Technologies. ...
- February 27, 2002
Tuna output seen to rise
The government expects the country's tuna production to increase in the last quarter of 2012 to February 2013 as fishermen were recently given access to fish in the so-called high seas pocket 1 or HSP-1 of the Pacific ...
- October 25, 2012
Shelter from the storm: Coastal greenbelts of mangroves and beach forests
A school module published in 2009 — the Mangrove Resource and Instruction for Elementary Grades — already differentiated storm surges from tsunamis. Funded by P1 million from my Pew Fellowship grant to cover module writing, ...
- December 19, 2013