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Program for poor fishermen pushed
At 39.2 percent, the country’s fishery sector exhibited the highest poverty incidence in 2012, based on the National Statistics Coordinating Board 2014 update on poverty.
To address this, Senator Cynthia A. Villar called ...
- February 20, 2015
SC orders to protect WPS: Writ compels gov't to stop marine foray
Amid Chinese incursions on the country’s islands in the West Philippine Sea, the Supreme Court issued a writ of Kalikasan Friday compelling concerned government agencies to protect, preserve, rehabilitate, and restore the ...
- May 4, 2019
Isabela fish farm reels in success with Landbank support
When Cagayan Valley, one of the country’s largest tilapia-producing regions, faced a region-wide shortage of tilapia fingerlings in 1993, business graduate Arnel Santiago decided to establish his own fish hatchery to help ...
- July 22, 2022
Fishermen protest Bacoor 'reclamation'
The fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) filed a complaint against Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla before the Office of the Ombudsman over the proposed 420-hectare ...
- February 19, 2020
BFAR moves to curb prices of galunggong
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is looking at the scales to lower prices of Blue Mackerel Scad or Shortfin Scad or galunggong, dubbed as the “poor man’s fish,” which have risen to as high as P240 per kilogram. ...
- March 12, 2021
PH, China fishing talks improve
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday said fishing talks between the Philippines and China have progressed, despite recent reports of Filipino fishermen being blocked by Chinese vessels off Pag-asa Island, and the ...
- June 21, 2023
Solon seeks P1k fuel subsidy for fisherfolks
Agri Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has filed a bill seeking to guarantee a fuel subsidy for municipal fisherfolk by providing a fuel voucher of not less than P1,000 per month. Under House Bill No. 8007 or the “Pantawid ...
- May 15, 2023
Court tells agencies to report on, assess Manila Bay reclamations
The Supreme Court has required concerned government agencies to submit a report on the ongoing land reclamation projects in Manila Bay, including their assessment of the impact of these activities on the environment. The ...
- September 2, 2023
BFAR, Itbayat Island open first tilapia hatchery
Batanes fish farmers will soon have their own local source of tilapia fingerlings as the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and the local government inaugurated on April 4, 2024 ...
- April 11, 2024