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DA sets stricter rules for importing fish
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has intensified the requirements for importing certain fish products including pompano to prevent their sale in wet markets. The action was made after lawmakers urged the Bureau of Fisheries ...
- December 15, 2022
DA Administrative, Circular No. 02, Series of 2021
Subject: Partial Suspension of Section 3 (a) of Fisheries Administrative Order No. 264, Series of 2020 (Regulation on the catching, possession, transporting, selling, trading and exporting of mangrove crablets, juvenile ...
- March 15, 2021
DA-BFAR's statement: No outbreak of Diseases in Tilapia and shrimps
The Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic clarifies that there is no outbreak of diseases in tilapia or shrimp and that the recent cases of fish mortality in the Taal Lake and Laguna de Bay area were ...
- June 28, 2020
BFAR: Vessel monitoring systems to be required for fishing boats
The implementating rules and regulations (IRR) for a new law mandating the installation of monitoring systems on fishing vessels will be released early next month. a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) official ...
- August 26, 2015
Galunggong imports to arrive ahead of closed fishing season
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has allowed the entry of up to 17,000 metric tons (MT) of round scad, commonly known as galunggong, which will reach markets ahead of the closed fishing season when supply of the fish is ...
- August 16, 2018
Info drive vs illegal fishing
Some 125 information officers from the different regional offices of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources(BFAR) attended the BFAR Information officers' Workshop and Media Conference on RA 10654 and Illegal, ...
- October 29, 2015
Fishing ban at Visayan sea lifted
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) lifted the three-month closed fishing season in the Visayan Sea earlier this week. Under the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) No. 167-3 Series of 2013, the government ...
- February 20, 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
Support fishing boat operators
The Department of Agriculture is asked to extend financial support to fishing boat operators who lost their livelihood due to the implementation of certain Fisheries Code provisions, particularly the ban on hulbot-hulbot. ...
- March 26, 2014
Stricter vessel monitoring in fisheries sector sought
The Philippine Earth Justice Center (PEJC). is urging the implementation of the vessel monitoring mechanism (VMM) requirement under the amended fisheries code in order to properly govern commercial fishing. The implementing ...
- August 22, 2018