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Everyone needs the oceans to be protected
Ensuring that these ecosystems stay healthy is getting harder, as the oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide and overfishing escalates, aided by advances in deep-water fishing technology. Carbon dioxide turns the water more ...
- September 18, 2016
Aqua assets under threat
Rising water temperatures as a result of climate change could threaten the country's aquaculture industry and fish production in general, a scientist based in Iloilo province said on Friday. "There is a threat to aquaculture ...
- October 3, 2015
Goats go surfing, help kids overcome fear
As cheering children and men frantically paddle their inflatable surfboard through the frothy Pacific waves onto the beach, one passenger placidly sits in the bow taking it all in—a large, white goat. California surfer ...
- March 24, 2021
Shellfish ban hurting Capiz, Bohol food tourism
Rainer Cargando, the market administrator of Teodoro Arcenas Trade Center, told Bedico and the other vendors not to sell any shellfish after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) issued a red tide warning ...
- September 19, 2015
Agri-aqua forum seen to fetch P500 million in investments
Velma Jane Cubing-Lao of the Iloilo Provincial Planning and Development Office said the two-day forum was very successful as they were able to tie up with big businesses and opened new investments for agricultural products ...
- November 15, 2016
Farmers avail of P53-M loan from DA special credit program
Hundreds of farmers and fisherfolk in Negros Occidental have benefited from about PHP53 million in loans from the Production Loan Easy Access (PLEA) program of the Department of Agriculture -Agricultural Credit Policy ...
- March 16, 2019
BFAR-Region 2 enforces crab-saving measures
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has rolled out two measures expected to conserve and protect crab and lobster species in the region. Milagros Morales, BFAR-Region 2 director, ...
- May 2, 2020
'Sea of Life' conservation project launched
Vibrant, abundant and teeming with life, this is how most divers and marine conservationists would describe Philippine's oceans and marine life. The country's coral reef area is so biodiverse that it is considered as the ...
- August 14, 2018
House OKs 3 bills protecting Phl territorial waters
The House of Representatives has passed three measures aimed at protecting the country's territorial waters and marine resources, Feliciano Belmonte Jr. announced before the chamber adjourned on Wednesday. Approved were ...
- June 13, 2015
Sardine industry questions basis for SRP price controls
The Canned Sardines Association of the Philippines (CSAP) said the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) needs to allow price increases to help the industry recover its costs, and noted that the Price Law is silent on the ...
- March 11, 2022