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    • Gov promises to help Zambales fishermen 

      Datu, Mahatma Randy (The Manila Times, March 18, 2024, on page A8)
      Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. urged fishermen in the province to form cooperatives to avail of funds from the provincial government to develop sustainable fishing methods. Ebdane made the advice upon hearing complaints from ...

    • BoI to harness PH cold chain for bangus industry 

      Miguel, Janine Alexis (The Manila Times, March 16, 2024, on page B2)
      The Board of Investments (BoI), logistics providers, and other government agencies are collaborating to seize investment opportunities to develop the cold chain system for the bangus (milkfish) industry. The BoI sees ...

    • Oil-spill damage could reach P7B 

      Miguel, Janine Alexis (The Manila Times, April 28, 2023, on page A8)
      Damage to the environment caused by the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro may reach P7 billion, Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga said on Wednesday. In an interview with ANC's Headstart, Loyzaga said the amount was ...

    • Marcos signs salt law 

      Maralit, Kristina; Tamayo, Bernadette (The Manila Times, March 18, 2024, on page A1)
      President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed into law the “Philippine Salt Industry Development Act,” which aims to strengthen and revitalize the salt industry. The law, signed on March 11, is part of the administration’s ...

    • Cavite fishermen net a bounty of sardines 

      Abrina, Dennis (The Manila Times, March 20, 2024, on page A7)
      Residents in this coastal town are celebrating the unusual amount of "tamban" or sardines caught by local fishermen in the past few weeks. Mike Concha, president of a fisherfolk group in Rosario, said that a fishing boat ...

    • Agri damage in W. Visayas hits P689.9M 

      Adiong, Eugene (The Manila Times, March 13, 2024, on page A8)
      Western Visayas has incurred agricultural damage of P689.9 million due to the drought caused by El Niño, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said on Monday, March 11. OCD-WV spokesman Cindy Ferrer said the hardest hit area ...

    • 23 fishermen rescued as boat catches fire 

      Adiong, Eugene Y. (The Manila Times, March 24, 2024, on page A8)
      Twenty-three fishermen were rescued off the coast of Sitio Lintub, Barangay Nagbo-alao, Basay, Negros Oriental, on Wednesday, March 20, after their fishing boat caught fire and capsized. L.t. Stephen Polinar, the public ...

    • Malaysia discredits Sulu sultan heirs 

      Jacinto, Al (The Manila Times, April 17, 2023, on page A8)
      After tagging as a terrorist one of the eight descendants of the sultan of Sulu who secured a disputed arbitration award against Malaysia in 2022, Kuala Lumpur now launched a website attacking the credibility of all the ...

    • RDC might lose license over Mindoro oil spill 

      Huelar, Carmela (The Manila Times, April 6, 2023, on page A9)
      RDC Reield Marine Services, the company that operates MT Princess Empress that sank off the coast of Oriental Mindoro on February 28, spilling thousands of liters of oil in the area, might have its license canceled, the ...

    • Race to identify health effects of microplastics 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 22, 2023, on page A7)
      Tiny pieces of plastic have been found littered throughout human bodies, trapped in our lungs and laced through our blood, but the long-term health effects of this exposure remain unclear. Every day humans ingest, inhale ...

    • UN adopts 'historic' high seas treaty 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 21, 2023, on page A3)
      The world's first international treaty to protect the high seas was adopted Monday (Tuesday in Manila) at the United Nations, creating a landmark environmental accord designed to protect remote ecosystems vital to humanity. ...

    • Climate change could hit 76.8% of corals by 2100 

      Xinhua (The Manila Times, June 8, 2023, on page A8)
      Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) has estimated that 76.8 percent of corals across the world would catch disease by 2100 amid global warming. In their new study published in the Ecology Letter ...

    • Sharks, humans can share ocean peacefully - study 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Manila Times, June 8, 2023, on page B7)
      You're going to need a bigger...drone. That's right, 'Jaws' fans. Researchers at California State University, Long Beach-based Shark Lab used drones to study juvenile white sharks along the southern California coastline, ...

    • South Korea sends supplies for oil spill cleanup 

      Tamayo, Bernadette (The Manila Times, April 6, 2023, on page A7)
      The South Korean government sent a shipload of supplies to the Philippines to help in the cleanup of the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro. The Korean Embassy in the Philippines, in a statement, said a Korean ship reached Port ...

    • Japan's food producers aim to cultivate a taste for fake fish 

      Lewis, Leo (The Manila Times, July 10, 2023, on page C6)
      For all of its exuberantly vast scale, and all its sumptuous products, and its fizzingly enthusiastic post-pandemic exhibitors, the Foodex 2023 trade show captured Japan at a vulnerable moment. One exhibit in particular ...

    • Dead from cargo vessel sinking off Japan reach 8 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, January 27, 2023, on page B8)
      Eight people are dead, including six Chinese, after a ship sank in waters off the coast of Japan, a Chinese diplomat said on Thursday. The 6,551-ton Jin Tian cargo vessel, carrying crew from China and Myanmar, sent a ...

    • Region 3 farmers, fishers receive DA assistance 

      Hernandez, Jose (The Manila Times, June 23, 2023, on page A7)
      Farmers and fisherfolk in Central Luzon seem to be consistently enjoying assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) amid rising prices of commodities by directly linking them to buyers through Kadiwa trade fairs ...

    • BFAR: Fisheries sector under threat 

      Miguel, Janine Alexis (The Manila Times, July 5, 2023, on page B2)
      The country's fisheries sector is under constant threat due to the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUUF) that the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is aware of. BFAR ...

    • Fishpens ordered dismantled 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (The Manila Times, June 23, 2023, on page A8)
      The mayor of this town has ordered the dismantling of all fishpens and other fishing structures that had proliferated in rivers here in the last few weeks. In an executive order, Mayor Pedro Merrera 3rd said he has ordered ...

    • Scuba divers train in ecosystem assessment 

      Domingo, Leander (The Manila Times, January 28, 2023, on page B5)
      A training session for the implementers of the Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Management Program (CMEMP) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) was conducted to improve ...