Browsing The Manila Times by Name "Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)"

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    • Ban on Danish Seine fishing method strengthened 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, July 13, 2018, on page B5)
      The nationwide ban on the use of the fishing device Danish Seine (hulbot-hulbot) that destroys marine habitats has been strengthened after the Department of Agriculture (DA) approved an order declaring mere possession of ...

    • China's global fishing dominance 

      Urbina, Ian (The Manila Times, September 4, 2020, on page A6)
      More than a hundred miles from shore, near the coast of West Africa, I accompanied marine police officers from Gambia as they arrested 15 foreign ships for labor violations and illegal fishing over the course of a week in ...

    • FAO, BFAR launch campaign vs tilapia lake virus 

      Hernandez, Jerry (The Manila Times, January 25, 2023, on page A8)
      To mitigate the threats posed by the tilapia lake virus (TiLV) to the fishery industry, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) are gathering tilapia farmers and ...

    • Know your marine assets and potentials (Last of 2 parts) 

      Santos, Gil H. A (The Manila Times, September 25, 2017, on page B5)
      From the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) data bank researchers can see the huge potential of the Asean members’ ocean, mangroves and coral/reef resources. The Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia ...

    • New marine parks named at Chile sea summit 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, October 6, 2015, on page C4)
      The United States and partner countries were to announce new marine reserves on Monday at the start of a major conference in Chile on protecting the world's oceans. Chile is hosting the Our Ocean conference in the picturesque ...

    • PH elected head of IMO-ILO joint working group for world fishing effort 

      Ayeng, Raffy (The Manila Times, October 30, 2019, on page B8)
      The Philippines was elected as the chair of the fourth Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Labor Organization and International Maritime Organization's Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting on Illegal, ...

    • PH, countries called to protect marine ecosystem for shark species 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, October 26, 2017, on page B5)
      Marine conservation groups have urged the Philippine government to pass a comprehensive law to protect and conserve all shark species in the country even as it called the world’s nations to ensure protection of whale sharks ...

    • Prawn sandwich destroys Philippines fish nurseries 

      Morella, Cecil (The Manila Times, April 11, 2008, on page A5)
      She helped turn many of the world’s prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life’s work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipina zoologist, whose ...

    • S. Korean airlines ban shark fin as cargo 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 21, 2013, on page B7)
      South Korea’s two largest airlines, Korean Air and Asiana, said on Thursday they had both decided to ban shark fin from their cargo flights as part of a growing global campaign against the Asian delicacy. Korean Air, which ...

    • Searca, SGV craft 10-yr agri, fishery plan 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, August 8, 2022, on page A8)
      The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) in partnership with SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. (SGV) was tapped by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to formulate the National ...

    • Tilapia holds promise for the future 

      (The Manila Times, July 27, 1996, on page 15)
      Reconciling population growth and food productivity has trumped the government for ages. Projections from the National Census and Statistics Office placed the country's population at 75.2 million by the year 2000. Each ...

    • UN forum to focus on ocean economy 

      Torib, Yashika F. (The Manila Times, April 6, 2022, on page B7)
      The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) will emphasize ocean economy, fisheries and marine environmental protection at its 4th Oceans Forum to be held from April 6 to 8, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland. ...

    • UN sounds alarm on lethal tilapia virus 

      IPS (The Manila Times, June 2, 2017, on page B5)
      A highly contagious disease is spreading among farmed and wild tilapia, one of the world’s most important fish for human consumption, the United Nations warns, adding that though not a human health risk, Tilapia Lake Virus ...