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US-BFAR partner to improve fish production in the Visayas
The United States government and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) have jointly launched “Fish Right,” a P1.3 billion five-year sustainable fisheries project aimed to increase fish biomass and strengthen ...
- November 21, 2018
Solons question P122-B Laguna Lake dike project
The House Committees on Public Works and Highways and Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources have been urged to look into the alleged displacement of around 80,000 urban poor households following the implementation's ...
- September 27, 2015
Ex-rebels in aquaculture
Rebel returnees construct floating cages for tilapia culture as part of the aquaculture program launched recently in Tapax, Capiz. The project that extends livelihood assistance to former rebels is a collaborative program ...
- November 2, 1999
What to do with the fish pens in Laguna de Bay: (part II)
Demolition of all the fish pens/cages in Laguna de Bay is anti-poor. It unnecessarily deprives the poor consumers of Metro Manila and surrounding communities of a significant part of their affordable animal protein supply. ...
- March 5, 2017
New fishing policy for tinapa industry
To ensure the availability of Alumahan (island mackerel) for the tinapa (smoked fish) industry, the alliance of Samar Sea Mayors has proposed the “No-fishing” policy during the months of March-April-May-June. BFAR studies ...
- October 16, 2015
Illegal trawls swapped with legally allowed fishing gears in Cagayan
With the aim to put a halt to the use of active gear in municipal waters and at the same time ensure that fishers continue their main source of livelihooh, the fisheries bureau here currently implements a mechanism on ...
- January 12, 2019
200 fiberglass fishing boats for Bataan
This province will be having 200 new fishing boats care of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the first nine of these were already distributed to fishermen last Monday by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ...
- September 20, 2017
National abalone breeding program to address shortage in world market
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap on Friday launched here a five-year program spearheaded by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and Bureau of Fisheries and Agriculture Research (BFAR) to address the ...
- July 19, 2007
BFAR lifts sardine fishing ban in Zamboanga waters
Even as the government continuously implements a three-month ban on sardine fishing every year, the sardines industry in Zamboanga still ended up growing P20 billion, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said. The Department ...
- March 6, 2018
BFAR helps catfish farmers contain bullfrog- infestation
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is training a community of catfish (hito) growers fight a bullfrog infestation that has threatened their livelihood for months in the industry town of Los Amigos, this ...
- January 18, 2018