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Demolition of fish pens in Laguna Lake starts
Two fish pens, occupying about 100 hectares in the Laguna Lake, were demolished early Tuesday as part of the government’s effort to ease the overly congested water body covering parts of Laguna and Rizal provinces and Metro ...
- August 10, 2016
Gov’t starts dismantling fish pens in Laguna de Bay
After issuing a final warning to all fish pen operators last month, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) began dismantling fish pens and fish cages in Laguna de Bay on Thursday. In his first address ...
- January 27, 2017
No slow days for turtle expert despite retirement
Unlike the marine turtles that he had spent years studying, Romeo Trono has apparently never had slow days—even in retirement. Contemplating the sunset by the beach while sipping rum mixed with Coke, Trono, 59, could easily ...
- June 3, 2018
No letup in fish pen demolition
A government team on Tuesday demolished two fish pens covering a total area of 70 hectares in Laguna de Bay as a new deadline for operators to harvest their stock and remove their structures from the lake looms. Joined by ...
- February 15, 2017
No more fish to catch, or spilt fuel to collect
Wearing the face masks given to them by health and social workers, Rodolfo Lasca, 49, and two neighbors arrived at the village basketball court yesterday to claim their emergency rice ration. Ever since a huge diesel oil ...
- August 11, 2013
Fish kill feared caused by chemical pills
Lake authorities were looking into reports that the fish kill at the Laguna de Bay on Friday was caused by chemical spills from an alcohol distillery plant in Cabuyao town that burned down last week. This was after lake ...
- October 25, 2010
Fishkill hits cages in Taal Lake; owners lose ₱5M
The local government of Agoncillo town in Batangas province will distribute tilapia fingerlings to local cage operators affected by the recent fishkill in Taal Lake. The incidence of “fish mortality,” a term preferred by ...
- November 6, 2018
₱12.3-M tilapia lost in Taal Lake fish kill: BFAR monitoring waters off 3 lakeshore towns
At least 150 tons or P12.3 million worth of cultured tilapia turned belly-up in fish cages in Taal Lake in Batangas province due to a low level of dissolved oxygen in the water. The Department of Environment and Natural ...
- June 1, 2019
Laguna de Bay in grave peril
Bayani Enriquez has happy childhood memories of swimming and fishing in Laguna de Bay in the 1980s. Now, the lake is weighed down by shanties, fish pens, illegal reclamation, industrial pollution, sewage and sedimentation. ...
- January 5, 2017
Water hyacinths choke Rizal town: State of calamity declared to clear Laguna de Bay, aid fishers
Thick beds of water hyacinth in Laguna de Bay have prompted the local government of Cardona in Rizal province to declare the town under a state of calamity. Swaths of the aquatic plant, stretching to about 2 kilometers ...
- November 18, 2017