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SEAFDEC boosts aquaculture technology
To help marginal fisherfolks uplift their economic status, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) focuses its current thrusts on aquaculture technology. Moreover, a technology and verification extension ...
- July 10, 2000
Duterte is wrong to call Carpio buang... or maybe not
President Duterte is wrong to call Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio buang, for criticizing his statement to allow Chinese fishermen access to “Philippine waters.” Buang means stupid — certainly a description that applies ...
- June 28, 2019
A collaborative province-led agriculture and fisheries extension model
Unfortunately, the rural extension was weakened by the well-intentioned Local Government Code of 1991 which devolved agricultural extension to the local government units (LGUs). True, devolution allowed for more democratic ...
- March 11, 2018
US-BFAR partner to improve fish production in the Visayas
The United States government and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) have jointly launched “Fish Right,” a P1.3 billion five-year sustainable fisheries project aimed to increase fish biomass and strengthen ...
- November 21, 2018
Lorenzana wants apology from Chinese boat captain
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana yesterday sought an apology from the captain of the Chinese fishing vessel that rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat at Recto Bank in the Philippine Sea earlier this month and abandoned ...
- June 20, 2019
Fisherfolk turns to grouper cage culture
A fisherfolk association here asked the support of experts to further promote aquaculture of high-value commercial fish species. Capiz Provincial Agriculturist Slyvia dela Cruz said they have tapped the expertise of Southeast ...
- November 7, 2010
Viability of producing functional food
The production or processing of functional food is becoming one of the fast growing segments of the country’s food industry. Functional food contains both essential nutrients and health promoting non-nutrients. However, ...
- July 27, 2018
P10 billion eyed for fisheries program
The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday said it is in the final stage of getting the approval to implement the Fisheries and Coastal Resiliency (FishCoRe) Project worth $200 million (P10 billion) funded by the World ...
- October 28, 2021
Campaign against illegal fishing earns citation for villar
Senator Cynthia Villar was recognized by the Department of Agriculture for her role in the enactment of the law against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. During the first command conference of the Philippines ...
- December 24, 2018
PHL could bring another case vs. China before int’l court, says Carpio
Manila could bring another case against Beijing before the court that invalidated the latter's excessive claims to the South China Sea, after Chinese Coast Guard was reported to be taking Filipino fishermen's haul from ...
- June 9, 2018