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Laguna de Bay in desperate need of rehab
Sunday marks the first anniversary of Typhoon Ondoy, known elsewhere as Ketsana. In just six hours or so that day, Metro Manila and nearby provinces experienced a month’s worth of rainfall. Flashfloods inundated large ...
- September 24, 2010
Australian Embassy supports marine conservation in Mindoro
The Australian Embassy, through its Direct Aid Program (DAP), has funded community group Kaunsayan Formation for Community Development (KAFCODE) to establish 200 artificial reef modules to help rehabilitate the marine ...
- June 9, 2010
Taal Lake fishkill seen likely owing to dry spell
Like in other bodies of inland waters, occasional fish kill may likely occur at the famous Taal Lake this summer because of the recurrence of El Niño phenomenon and the unprecedented changing of temperature in the lake ...
- March 12, 2010
BFAR to give importance to 'halal' industry
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region XII, which is based in General Santos City, is looking forward to a reinforced halal industry in the country in accordance with economic policy of the Aquino ...
- July 8, 2010
Obama heads to oil spill disaster zone
US and British leaders sought to ease tensions amid sharpened rhetoric over the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as President Barack Obama readied to take matters into his own hands. As political pressure mounts ...
- June 14, 2010
BFAR lifts shellfish ban in Bataan
“Shellfishes harvested in the Bataan coastal waters are now safe for human consumption and likewise the gathering, harvesting and marketing of shellfishes in the area are now permitted,” the bureau advisory said. Mayor ...
- December 9, 2010
US, Philippines launch fishery sector program
The United States Agency for International Development (Usaid) and the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) led by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala on Wednesday launched a new ...
- October 18, 2010
DENR creates body on anti-coral bleaching
Secretary Ramon Paje of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ( DENR) ordered recently the creation of a task force under the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau to monitor and document coral bleaching in the ...
- September 13, 2010
Fishermen fish out dead sperm whale in Albay
A week after typhoon Basyang hit in Southern Luzon, local fishermen in the island town of Rapu-Rapu caught a dead 20-ton sperm whale floating over the waters off Carogcog village on Monday. The incident was reported by the ...
- July 21, 2010
Oil spills, units and scale
I started the day by reading through a news report off Internet about the size and scale of the oil spill by a British Petroleum leased-rig named Deep-water Horizon off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. In that ...
- July 8, 2010