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IMO meeting to adopt fishing boat safety rules
A two-day diplomatic conferences that opened here Tuesday is expected to adopt an agreement on implementing the provisions of the 1993 protocol relating to a UN convention for the safety of fishing vessels. The conference ...
- October 11, 2012
PH verifying ‘harassment’ in WPS
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday ordered the military to validate a report of Kalayaan Mayor Roberto del Mundo who claimed that Filipino fishermen were being harassed by the Chinese in a sandbar near Pag-asa ...
- March 7, 2019
Phl fires off diplomatic protest over boat sinking
The Philippines has lodged a diplomatic protest over the sinking of a fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in Recto Bank on June 9, with the Chinese abandoning the Filipino fishermen in the sea. Presidential spokesman Salvador ...
- June 14, 2019
10 fishermen arrested for illegal fishing off Mindoro
The Police Provincial Office announced Sunday the arrest of 10 fishermen in separate areas amid the ramped up campaign against illegal fishing. Senior Superintendent Christopher C. Birung, provincial director of the Oriental ...
- September 3, 2018
Taiwan fishers set sail for 'island'
Five Taiwanese fishing boats set sail for Taiwan's sole holding in the South China Sea on Wednesday in protest against a court ruling that deems it a rock rather that an island, limiting its rights to surrounding resource-rich ...
- July 21, 2016
Red tide calamity
Around 2,500 households in the villages depend on the sea for their food and livelihood. They have been displaced, said Mayor Sigfriedo Betita. SB members are convening in a special session today to make the declaration. ...
- September 29, 2017
PH boat captain claims vessel collision ' intentional'
The captain of the Philippine vessel claimed they were intentionally hit by the Chinese vessel even if they were anchored last week at the Reed Bank in the South China Sea. Junel Insigne, captain of F/B GEMVIR1, said those ...
- June 16, 2019
'Hulbot' fishermen arrested, pay fine
Nineteen fishermen engaging in Danish seine or “hulbot-hulbot” fishing were made to pay a P50,000 compromise fine following their arrest in Iloilo City recently. The fishermen were arrested off the coast of Sicogon Island, ...
- February 14, 2014
Phl Coast Guard drives away 5 Chinese, 2 Vietnamese ships from Spratlys area
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Sunday that it drove off last week seven foreign-flagged fishing vessels from waters around the Marie Louise Bank, a part of the Philippine exclusive economic zone in the South ...
- July 5, 2021
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