Browsing The Manila Times by Place "Zamboanga"

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    • BFAR lifts fishing ban in Zamboanga Peninsula 

      Lagare, Jordeene B. (The Manila Times, March 2, 2021, on page B2)
      The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) on Monday lifted the 10th closed fishing season for sardines in Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula). For a decade now, the closed fishing season ...

    • Canned sardines shortage looms 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, September 20, 2022, on page B2)
      Fisherfolk leaders and sardine cannery owners are asking the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to convene a meeting with them and include coastal local government units (LGUs) to discuss the looming shortage ...

    • Imported galunggong floods markets 

      Cariaso, Bella (The Manila Times, September 18, 2022, on page A2)
      The Association of Fish Traders of the Philippines Inc. confirmed on Saturday the proliferation of imported frozen galunggong or round scad in the wet markets in Metro Manila. In a radio interview, the group's president, ...

    • Sardine fishing banned in R-9 until December 

      Rimando, Antonio P. (The Manila Times, November 18, 2019, on page A5)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will lift its three-month ban on sardine-fishing in conservation areas of the Zamboanga Peninsula on December 1, according to a top official of the agency. BFAR Region ...

    • Small plane crash-lands at sea 

      Jacinto, Al (The Manila Times, July 8, 2020, on page A9)
      A small private plane carrying three foreigners and a Filipino crash-landed at sea off a coastal village in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga on Tuesday. The four passengers — two Indians, a Nepalese and the ...

    • Zamboanga fisherfolk get P50-M loan 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, March 6, 2018, on page A7)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has allocated P50 million in livelihood loans to support fisherfolk and fishing industry stakeholders during the three-month closed fishing season in the Zamboanga Peninsula. The fund ...

    • Zamboanga fishing opens anew 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, March 2, 2018, on page B5)
      Commercial fishing firms and fisherfolk can now resume their operations in the waters here as the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources officially opened the sardines season in the peninsula, ...