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DENR to lift moratorium on fish pen operations
The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) will issue new permits to fish pen operators in January with the lifting of the one-year moratorium on fish pen operations, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ...
- July 13, 2017
Greenpeace supports DA move vs illegal fishing
Greenpeace expressed recently its support to the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) urgent call to shame and suspend local officials who fail to stop illegal fishing. Vince Cinches, Oceans Campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast ...
- January 9, 2017
No monitoring station on Panatag - Beijing
China is not building an environmental monitoring station on Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, its foreign ministry said yesterday, apparently denying remarks made by a local official last week. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying ...
- March 23, 2017
Sino ships seen in WPS: despite Beijing's assurance no new expansion in disputed waters
A party-list lawmaker on Tuesday urged the government to file a diplomatic protest against China over Chinese ships spotted near Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea.
At the same time, Magdalo Party-List Rep. Gary ...
- August 16, 2017
Panatag Shoal
To remove the mistrust and suspicion that is obviously being exploited by opposition and their US handlers, maybe an agreement can be sorted out to convert the Panatag Shoal into a free zone where, as it was before, the ...
- April 1, 2017
ASEAN code of conduct completed
Philippine Ambassador to China Jose Santiago Sta. Romana has welcomed the completion of the draft of the framework of the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea territorial disputes. Sta. Romana lauded the senior officials ...
- May 21, 2017
China to build on Panatag Shoal
China plans to build the first permanent structure on a South China Sea shoal at the heart of a territorial dispute with the Philippines, in a move likely to renew concerns over Beijing’s robust assertions of its claims ...
- March 18, 2017
Probes shooting of Filipino boat
China has said it will look into reports that Filipino fishermen have been driven away allegedly by the Chinese Coast Guard from Union Bank in the South China Sea, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday. ”I ...
- April 23, 2017
Study aims to conserve galunggong, espada
Teeming with more than 3,000 species of fish, other sea creatures and corals, the Philippines is considered a marine sanctuary. The country, which has one of the world’s longest coastlines, has vast fishing grounds that ...
- November 2, 2017
The future of seaweed industry (Part II)
Those in the seaweed industry have had their share of international intrigues when at one time in the past there were foreign groups who were peddling the idea that the Philippine carrageenan is carcinogenic. Earlier, ...
- May 6, 2017