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    • Pasig River cleanup starts next month 

      (Daily Tribune, April 22, 2021, on page A7)
      Preparations for the historic effort to clean up the Pasig River, to be fully funded by San Miguel Corp. (SMC) and jointly undertaken with the Departments of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Public Works and ...

    • 'Pay P800B for ecological damage': China intrusion into WPS hit 

      Locus, Sundy (Daily Tribune, April 27, 2021, on page A1-A2)
      A number of senators on Monday condemned the illegal activities of China in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) through a resolution that denounced the superpower country’s intrusion into the Philippine territory. China should ...

    • PCG inflatables confront China's missile corvette 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, March 31, 2023, on page A1-A6)
      Now it can be told, and only because the Philippine Coast Guard has been allowed to lift the veil of secrecy cloaking its operations in the West Philippine Sea. The PCG yesterday revealed that it had deployed from the BRP ...

    • PCG seizes P1.2-B fossilized 'taklobo' 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, April 18, 2021, on page B14)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), together with other government agencies, apprehended the supposed selling of 200 tons of fossilized giant clams, with a market price of around P1.2 billion, resulting in the arrest of four ...

    • PCG, China ships in close call 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, March 28, 2022, on page A1-A6)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) confirmed on Sunday that one of its vessels nearly had a collision with its Chinese counterpart at the vicinity of Bajo de Masinloc. BRP Malabrigo (MRRV-4402) had a close call with a Chinese ...

    • Phl boosting WPS presence 

      (Daily Tribune, May 16, 2021, on page A1-A2)
      The government is boosting its maritime patrols in the West Philippine Sea following President Duterte’s declaration that local ships won’t pull out from the disputed area, an official said Saturday. National security ...

    • Phl lauds WTO's fishery sector initiatives 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, June 18, 2022, on page B11)
      The Philippines has commended the World Trade Organization (WTO) in its mandate to address harmful fishery subsidies and vowed to defend the country’s interest for domestic fisherfolk and farmers. During the 12th Ministerial ...

    • Phl pressing WPS claim at ASEAN 

      (Daily Tribune, July 29, 2022, on page A2)
      The Philippines will assert the 2016 arbitral ruling to back its territorial claim in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) at the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Cambodia next week. Manalo said ...

    • Phl rebuffs China's sovereignty claim 

      Blancaflor, MJ (Daily Tribune, March 30, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippines on Tuesday refuted China’s claim that it has “sovereignty” over Scarborough Shoal, locally known as Panatag or Bajo de Masinloc. It came in response to Beijing’s pronouncement that it has “sovereign” rights ...

    • Phl territorial defense shored up 

      Roson, John (Daily Tribune, May 20, 2021, on page A3)
      The Philippines’ territorial defense capabilities are getting more enhancements this year as agencies are already collaborating on a satellite-aided maritime monitoring system and the expected delivery of a ground-based ...

    • Phl vessels patrolling WPS 'sufficient' 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, February 1, 2024, on page A3)
      A military official said the Philippine Navy and Philippine Coast Guard have a “sufficient number of vessels” patrolling within the country’s exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea. “We have a sufficient number ...

    • Phl-China oil exploration talks set May 

      Garner, Jom (Daily Tribune, April 5, 2023, on page B12)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said the Philippines and China with hold their "preparatory tasks" in Beijing for the possible joint oil and gas exploration in the West Philippine Sea in May. "The meeting ...

    • Pilot whale returned to habitat 

      Lacson, Nonoy E. (Daily Tribune, September 9, 2021, on page B15)
      The Environmental Conservation and Protection Center (ECPC) in Sarangani province has released a 14 feet-long female Pilot whale to its natural habitat after it underwent a series of rehabilitation procedures after its ...

    • Pinoy cargo vessel capsizes 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, January 18, 2023, on page B15)
      A cargo vessel carrying 11 Filipino crewmembers capsized in Indanan, Sulu on Monday according to reports from the Philippine Coast Guard on Tuesday. The PCG said that its personnel in PCG Station Western Sulu responded to ...

    • Prawn: A vital export commodity 

      Yap, Jun (Daily Tribune, January 1, 2021, on page B15)
      Farmed prawn has become a vital export commodity for the Philippines, among the known variety that has a high demand is vannamei, a prawn of the eastern Pacific Ocean which is caught or farmed for food. While production ...

    • Prices of fish stable: BFAR 

      Villamente, Jing (Daily Tribune, May 7, 2023, on page B14)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources on Friday assured that prices of fish in local markets remain stable despite the threat of the El Niño weather phenomenon. Atty. Demosthenes Escoto, BFAR director, said their ...

    • Proposed Sual fish port inspected 

      Reyes, Jonas (Daily Tribune, June 24, 2021, on page B15)
      The Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) recently conducted a site visit in this town for the planned construction of an improved PFDA-Sual Fish Port (PFDA-SFP). PFDA General Manager Atty. Glen A. Pangapalan ...

    • Quezon sea mishap: One dead, 22 rescued 

      Roson, John (Daily Tribune, December 1, 2020, on page B15)
      One person died and 22 others were rescued after a passenger boat capsized and sank off Atimonan, Quezon, on Monday morning. The Quezon provincial police said all 17 passengers and five crew members of M/B Gesu Bambino ...

    • 'Quinta' aftermath: Deaths, fishkill 

      Locus, Sundy Mae T.; Romero, Maria; Wakefield, Francis T. (Daily Tribune, October 29, 2020, on page B16)
      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 5, meanwhile, reported an initial 20 metric tons of tilapia valued at P2.1 million were lost. BFAR-5’s Regional Fisheries Laboratory conducted water sampling in six ...

    • Rare Tahiti coral reef 'like a work of art' 

      (Daily Tribune, January 30, 2022, on page B16)
      One of the largest coral reefs in the world has been discovered by a United Nation (UN)-supported scientific mission off the coast Tahiti. Announcing the stunning find UNESCO said drivers has explored large rose-shaped ...