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    • Fiji graves sink, fisheries shrink 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Daily Tribune, January 13, 2023, on page B14)
      The sea has already swallowed the village graveyard in Togoru, Fiji, and long-time resident Lavenia McGoon is dreading the day it claims her house. She piles old rubber car tires under the coconut trees that line the ...

    • Salt to the agri wound 

      (Daily Tribune, January 20, 2023, on page A5)
      First, it was onions at almost P700 per kilo. Following the shock of these "golden" bulbs, eggs became quite precious at P215 per tray. Now it's salt - and lawmakers are rubbing it in a wound that seems to have afflicted ...

    • BFAR, USAID conduct dialogues 

      Reyes, Jonas (Daily Tribune, February 19, 2023, on page B14)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the United States Agency for International Development — through its Fish Right Program — conducted a dialogue with Central Luzon fisherfolk regarding illegal fishing in ...

    • Fishpond coops receive aid 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Daily Tribune, February 21, 2023, on page B16)
      At least 110,000 tilapia fingerlings have been distributed by the City Agriculture Office to 152 fishpond cooperators here since January. According to City Agriculturist Shiela Nas on Monday, the fingerlings were provided ...

    • Lake Sebu declares state of calamity 

      (Daily Tribune, February 17, 2023, on page B15)
      The local government of Lake Sebu town here has declared a state of calamity following reports of a massive fish kill in the area which affected fish cage operators. Officials of the town on Thursday said that they have ...

    • Marikina eyes dredging expansion 

      Alcober, Neil (Daily Tribune, February 22, 2023, on page A7)
      Marikina City Mayor Marcelino Teodoro on Tuesday said they will expand their dredging activities in Marikina River this year as part of the city government’s flood control measures. The city government is also eyeing to ...

    • Nine missing after fishing boat overturns 

      (Daily Tribune, February 6, 2023, on page B14)
      Rescue workers were searching by sea and air for nine people missing after a fishing boat capsized in waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast, authorities said Sunday. The 24-ton vessel overturned in waters off the ...

    • Sulu offers fishing solutions 

      Lacson, Nonoy (Daily Tribune, September 27, 2023, on page B15)
      The provincial government here on Tuesday is offering a solution to the ongoing woes of fishing companies following the ban imposed on commercial fishing boats inside the Sulu Sea. Governor Abdusakur Tan disclosed that the ...

    • Shark kills teen girl in Australia river 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Daily Tribune, February 6, 2023, on page B14)
      A shark has bitten to death a 16-year-old girl who jumped into a river to swim with dolphins in Perth, Australia. The girl was pulled from the water after the attack on Saturday but died from her injuries at the scene after ...

    • Not another sinkhole, please 

      (Daily Tribune, December 16, 2022, on page A7)
      By the end of the Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force's extended term in June 2022, domestic tourism was on the verge of a huge resurgence. The body tasked during the time of President Rodrigo R. Duterte to facilitate the ...

    • Group demands: Make 'Maharlika' available to farmers, fishers 

      Romero, Maria; Oliquino, Edjen (Daily Tribune, December 19, 2022, on page A1)
      The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. said the proponents of the Maharlika Investment Fund should allocate a portion of the sovereign wealth to the agriculture value chain to ensure that farmers and fishers ...

    • DA stops importation of certain fish species 

      Piatos, Tiziana Celine (Daily Tribune, December 15, 2022, on page A2)
      The Department of Agriculture has temporarily halted the issuance of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Import Clearances to import frozen Roundscad, Bonito, Mackerel, Moonfish, Pompano and Tuna by-products to "prevent (its) ...

    • 'Build roads, stop fish smuggling' 

      Romero, Maria (Daily Tribune, December 19, 2022, on page B10)
      A network of agriculture groups said the government must ramp up efforts to scrutinize smugglers and importers diverting fish products to the wet market that violates existing regulations. In a press statement early this ...

    • Most wanted Limay dynamite fisher falls 

      Reyes, Jonas (Daily Tribune, December 21, 2022, on page B15)
      The Olongapo City Maritime Police Station arrested a fisherman wanted for illegal fishing in the town of Limay, Bataan on Monday. Olongapo MPS chief Police Lt. Mariel Cuizon disclosed that its operatives arrested the suspect ...

    • Red tide remains on two bays 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Daily Tribune, December 29, 2022, on page B16)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources revealed on Wednesday that red tide remains in Irong-Irong and San Pedro Bays in Samar province more than a month after the two bays turned positive for paralytic shellfish ...

    • BFAR releases 30K fingerlings 

      Reyes, Jonas (Daily Tribune, December 29, 2022, on page B15)
      At least 30,000 fingerlings were released by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Central Luzon at the Camachile River of the province of Pampanga. The initiative is part of the agency’s Balik Sigla sa Ilog at ...

    • 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 ...

    • Freshwater prawns a delicacy well sought after by many Filipinos 

      Yap, Julio Jr (Daily Tribune, January 2, 2023, on page B12)
      Seafood desired by many who love to eat well in the country includes the giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), commonly known as ulang in Tagalog and Udang in Ilocano. According to the Philippine Council for ...

    • New York park alligator captured 

      (Daily Tribune, February 22, 2023, on page B13)
      A “very lethargic” alligator was captured in a New York park, city officials said Monday, likely released by its owner far away from the species’ warmer habitat in the southeast United States.

    • Cannedvsardines price adjustment sought 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, January 20, 2023, on page A3)
      A group of canned sardine manufacturers on Thursday said that the public will have a new burden to bear should the Department of Trade and Industry allow a price adjustment to canned sardines in the market. In a radio ...