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Retired SEAFDEC couple continues to promote aquaculture in Mindanao
Once an aquaculturist, always an aquaculturist. This may just be a cliche, but this is how Mr. and Mrs. Rito Bombeo, retired researchers of SEAFDEC/AQD are doing now as they continue to promote aquaculture in Barangay ...
- March 5, 2018
PH allots P10.5M for SEAFDEC/AQD to establish 15 pilot multi-species hatcheries
The Philippine Government through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has allotted P10M for the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) to conduct feasibility ...
- March 1, 2018
SEAFDEC turns up the heat to meet bangus fry shortage
Despite being widely regarded as the unofficial national fish, about half of the milkfish on Filipino tables are born in hatcheries in Indonesia and Taiwan. This is the result of a perennial shortage of fry, the baby bangus ...
- April 18, 2020
Not just public utility drivers; Fishermen deed subsidy, too
As boat fuel accounts for half of the operating cost of fishermen, the government should increase its planned gas subsidy to them, to be drawn from windfall tax collection from higher fuel prices. In one study, more than ...
- April 8, 2022
BFAR deputizes LGUs to go after poachers
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Western Visayas has granted authority to local government units (LGUs) in the province to run after fishermen who continue to poach on protected waters. But before ...
- June 2, 2013
Endangered Hawksbill, Green sea turtles released to the ocean
Turtles are important reptiles in the marine ecosystem. They help maintain healthy sea grass beds and coral reefs that benefit commercial species such as shrimps, lobsters and tunas. Rescuing marine turtles is conserving ...
- August 26, 2021
'Boracay rehab Du30's biggest eco project'
An official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Western Visayas said the rehabilitation of Boracay island is considered the biggest environmental project of the administration of President ...
- June 2, 2022
Iloilo mulls crab hatchery
Iloilo plans to replicate a practice of the neighboring province of Negros Occidental in conserving blue crabs. During a recent meeting on the Visayan Sea, Negros Occidental governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. shared that they ...
- July 30, 2017
Be climate change champions - PEMO head
Negrenses should stop waiting for a champion to provide solutions to climate change, the Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO) chief said. Everyone should be the champion they are looking for, stressed lawyer ...
- July 2, 2016
Illegal fishing still a problem: Bantay Dagat in cahoots with poachers?
Illegal fishing remains a problem in northern Iloilo. Are the personnel of the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force colluding with illegal fishers? He [Raul Banias] did not discount the possibility that some task ...
- May 23, 2017