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Ex-Cordillera exec says commercial eroding native culture
The government’s open-door policy for big business, like commercial production of vegetables and large-scale mining, are fast eroding the Cordillera’s traditional practices that should instead be tapped to preserve indigenous ...
- October 12, 2010
Demolition of illegal fish pens starts in Dagupan
The city government last week began dismantling illegal fishing structures in its river systems to demonstrate that it was serious in enforcing its fishery ordinance. "It's now or never," said Mayor Benjamin Lim, who led ...
- October 12, 2010
12-kg tagged turtle set free
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Tuesday released a 12-kilogram Olive Ridley turtle, that kept returning to a village in Pangasinan, into the Lingayen Gulf. The turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea), whose ...
- December 15, 2010
BFAR on how to deal with fish kill: Check calendar
Watch your calendar. This was the advice of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to owners of fish ponds and pens in Pangasinan to avoid losing their cultured bangus (milkfish) to fish kill. Regino Regpala, chemist ...
- July 3, 2010
Severe heat prompts advanced harvest of Dadupan 'bangus'
Growers here have been forced to harvest their bangus stocks after some of these floated on Monday due to extreme heat. But city agriculturist Emma Molina said her office has not monitored any case of fish kill since last ...
- April 30, 2010