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Police, military pounce on illegal fishing in Cebu
“One-time, big-time” operations against illegal fishing were conducted by the police and military in Cebu province over the weekend. Seventeen individuals were arrested from Saturday to Sunday in the campaign dubbed as ...
- November 13, 2018
88 fishermen arrested
Police have arrested at least 88 fishermen in six motor Bancas off the sea of this city for violating the fisheries code. The police, Coast Guard and "Bantay-Dagat" (Sea Watch" groups have been on guard against illegal ...
- March 29, 2014
Villar scolds BFAR at Senate
At the inquiry of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, BFAR officials were grilled by its committee chairman, Villar, for supposedly snubbing the panel’s requests for reports on the implementation of the Republic ...
- March 20, 2018
‘Colorum’ commercial fishing boats thrive in Eastern Visayas
All but 5 percent of the 32,000 commercial fishing vessels in Eastern Visayas are registered with authorities, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) regional office. BFAR Regional Director Juan ...
- September 19, 2018
Fishermen Ask For Ban Exemption
Citing the ill-effects of super typhoon Yolanda, small scale fishermen in northern Iloilo province are asking Government not to implement the total banning of hulbot-hulbot for the next three years. The Carlesanon Small ...
- January 16, 2014
BFAR told to regulate fishpens, not ban total harvest of tawilis
A local fisherfolk group urged the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to regulate fishpen structures instead of imposing fishing ban on Sardinella tawilis following reports that the only freshwater sardine ...
- January 28, 2019
PCG nets 3 fishermen off Sorsogon for illegal fishing
Three fishermen were apprehended by maritime patrollers for allegedly engaging in illegal fishing in Sorsogon Bay late last week, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. While conducting seaborne patrol off Barangay Buenavista, ...
- July 30, 2018
Illegal fishing charges field vs 17 Vietnamese nationals
Vigan City, Ilocos Sur - The police filed poaching charges poaching against 17 Vietnamese fishermen arrested at the West Philippine Sea last week. It was reported that the Vietnamese vessels equipped with "superlights' ...
- September 15, 2016
Muro ami fishermen rescued in Palawan
Twenty-six Cebuano fishermen, claiming that they were illegally recruited and physically abused by the trader – a fellow-Cebuano — who owns their fishing vessel, were rescued by authorities in Palawan. The fishermen claimed ...
- January 23, 2015
Dynamite fishers
Three fishermen were arrested for dynamite fishing in waters off Mariveles, Bataan, it was reported here. Suspects Juanito C. Angulo, 29; Albert P. Mosqueriola, 29; and William C. de Guzman, 31, all of Sitio Gatchalian, ...
- January 27, 2015