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Poisonous jellyfish in Boracay
Tourists at worldfamous Boracay Island have been warned of the presence of poisonous jelly fish. The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (MDRRMC) of Malay in Aklan province recently issued an advisory on ...
- February 16, 2019
Gene- edited salmon may soon hit menus
Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny fish. After growing to roughly 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) in indoor tanks, they could ...
- June 22, 2019
Laguna Lake project critical, says group
The Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project will help avert a water supply crisis and the flooding of Metro Manila and nearby provinces because it is not only about dredging and cleaning up the lake, a group says. Pamana Lawa, ...
- September 17, 2010
BFAR fishing handbook
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will soon release a handbook on the different types of fishing gear and fishing methods used in the Philippines.
- April 7, 1989
P431-M biotech lab turned over to RP
The construction of a world-class biotechnology laboratory here is expected to considerably boost aquaculture research in the country. The P431-million Laboratory for Advanced Aquaculture Technologies was turned over last ...
- March 8, 2003
President asserts arbitral award rejecting China's claims in SCS
In an unprecedented move to assert the country’s position on the South China Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte raised the 2016 arbitral award that rejected Beijing’s excessive nine-dash-line claim before the United Nations ...
- September 23, 2020
Crocodiles: Caught in the jaws of extinction
Two decades later I found myself beside the world's largest captive crocodile, venerable Lolong, in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur. As a team from the DOST measured him, I realized that crocodiles actually lived way before many ...
- February 22, 2013
Seafdec-AQD set to hike production of crab seeds
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (Seafdec-AQD) in Tigbauan, Iloilo is set to increase the production of mud crab seeds as it is scheduled to conduct a two-month-long training here. ...
- June 29, 2001
DENR to use donated land for sewage treatment plant
The heirs of the late National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin have donated a 1.14-hectare property in Oriental Mindoro to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the construction of the “second and ...
- February 13, 2020
Lanao
A government center in Lala, Lanao del Norte had been chosen as demonstration site for environment-friendly shrimp culture technologies. This is stipulated in a memorandum of agreement signed between the Department of ...
- July 30, 2000