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Fish pens not needed, say execs
Even without fish pens, the bangus (milkfish) industry in this bustling city will continue to thrive. City Agriculturist Emma Molina made this assurance on Thursday to allay fears that the milkfish industry here will ...
- June 2, 2013
Vanishing dugongs
It was still five o’clock in the morning and yet Sonny Boy Aporbo was already awake. Immediately, he went to nearby Dahican Beach in Mati, Davao Oriental to do the usual morning ritual: to practice skimboarding. As he ...
- February 26, 2013
Meet the Australian lungfish
At Las Farolas, the newest tourist destination in Frontera Verde Drive beside Tiendesitas on Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City, one of the top freshwater fish attractions is the Australian Lungfish which has been observed to be ...
- August 18, 2013
Reforestation: not quantity but quality of trees
The Jan. 6 editorial (“Genuine growth”) was right on target in highlighting the urgency of reforestation efforts and the establishment of the National Greening Program (by Executive Order No. 23), under which millions of ...
- February 14, 2013
Cavite gov downplays diesel spill destruction
A diesel oil spill on Manila Bay that raises potential environmental and health hazards and threatens to ruin the capital’s vital fishing industry has “95-percent” evaporated, leaving only “a thin film” of fuel on the ...
- August 10, 2013
'Crising stalls Tubbataha salvage
The salvage operation for the US Navy minesweeper USS Guardian, which has been stuck in the Tubbataha Reefs off Palawan for over a month, suffered another setback after tropical depression “Crising” struck parts of Mindanao ...
- February 20, 2013
PH slams patrols Sino fishers
The Philippines yesterday denounced China’s announced fishery patrols in the Spratlys group of islands, as it asserted its sovereignty over its established maritime boundaries in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South ...
- February 27, 2013