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Fishers lead in mangrove-friendly mudcrab culture
Raising mudcrab in tidal flats with existing mangroves is a feasible and economically profitable livelihood alternative for fishers. And this is environment-friendly. This was confirmed in a mucrab technology verification ...
- October 30, 1999
A healthier Boracay should serve as a model
The six-month closure and cleanup of the resort-island of Boracay is an opportune time to rethink our tourism development for a more sustainable and long-term growth. While Boracay was getting more than two million foreign ...
- July 18, 2018
2018 int'l gab on coastal mgt in Guimaras
Gov. Samuel Gumarin accepted the PNLG flag recently at Sanya Visun Yacht Hotel in Hainan province, China as a symbol of acceptance for the hosting of the 2018 PNLG. Guimaras has an integrated coastal management program for ...
- December 27, 2017
PCAARRD initiates tilapia farming
An initiative of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCAARRD) started making tilapia farming accessible to selected ...
- November 11, 2020
Exploring the benefits of seaweed
Living up its status as an agriculture-business (agri-business), marine and aquatic institution in the country, a school in Malita, Davao Occidental, has explored one of the many benefits of seaweed by converting it to ...
- October 7, 2016
Program to boost catfish industry
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) has formulated a program aimed at conserving and increasing the production of the native catfish. The fish locally ...
- September 4, 2012
Antique fisherfolk get 119 fiberglass boats
The Antique Provincial Engineering Office (PEO) has delivered 119 fiberglass boats to marginalized fishermen in the municipality of Pandan to augment their livelihood. Alletth Gayatin, Senior Aquaculturist of the Office ...
- June 27, 2019
No more red tide in Carles' Gigantes group of islands
Recent laboratory analysis on shellfish samples from the islands showed these did not anymore have paralytic shellfish poison, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). The gathering of samples and ...
- October 14, 2017
Guimaras fisherfolk get P18 million in projects
Under the Targeted Actions to Reduce Poverty and Generate Economic Transformation Program, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) constructs CFLCs to reduce poverty incidence in coastal communities. BFAR, as ...
- August 26, 2017
'Coast Guard didn't act fast enough'
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) failed to control the spread of bunker fuel in Estancia, Iloilo during the first two weeks of the oil spill, according to Karl Ignatius Young, president of Kuan Yu Global Technologies, Inc., ...
- February 22, 2014