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Sino fishermen arraigned today on illegal fishing, poaching raps
Despite their refusal to participate in their trial, nine Chinese Fishermen caught poaching off half moon shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands will be arraigned today at the Puerto Princessa Regional Trial Court (RTC). ...
- May 21, 2014
Beijing pays a price for the assertiveness in South China Sea
Faced with mounting Chinese assertiveness, nothing seems to illustrate the impotence of Southeast Asian nations more than their glacial progress toward a code of conduct with Beijing on the South China Sea. It's been a ...
- May 15, 2014
Coral reefs
Close to 100 dive shops, hotel and resort operators in this city have signed a covenant for the protection and conservation of coral reefs here. Mayor Paz Radaza together with concerned government line agencies and the ...
- February 28, 2014
Amend Fisheries Code, Capitol Urged
A group of commercial fishing operators in Cebu is asking the provincial government to amend the existing Cebu Provincial Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Code for being biased against commercial fishing. Patrick Topalla, ...
- January 28, 2014
Aussie Reef
The government agency that oversees Australia's great barrier reef on Friday approved a plan to dump vast swathes of sediment on the reef as part of major coal port expansion - a decision that environmentalists say will ...
- February 1, 2014
Wetlands and agriculture: Partners for growth: (Part I)
It is on rare occasions that the advocacies we support and topics we value share a synergy or find a common ground. In my case, it is agriculture and environment protection. World Wetlands Day marks the anniversary of the ...
- March 12, 2014
LGUs to continue red tide monitoring
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) asked local government units (LGUs) to continue monitoring Samar's Maqueda and Villareal Bays even if the shellfish ban in the area has been lifted. BFAR Regional Director ...
- August 11, 2014
Yolanda-hit seaweed industry has yet to bounce back
The country's seaweed sector is yet to recover six months after super typhoon Yolanda ravaged seaweed plantation in the country, damaging about a third of the country's total euchema supply from Palawan and Eastern Samar. ...
- May 16, 2014
Wetlands and agriculture: Partners for growth: (Part III)
Ang mga sea grasses ay importante rin. Ayon kay Dr. Giovanni Tapang ng Center for Environmental Concerns ng AGHAM,: "an acre of sea grass allows 40,000 fish annually to develop and around 50 million small invertebrates ...
- March 14, 2014
Tuna Storage
Fire razed a storage plan of one of the biggest tuna processing firms here over the weekend. Authorities said some P30 million worth of properties had the storage plant of Mommy Gina Tuna Resources (MGTR) in Barangay ...
- January 14, 2014