Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "Filter feeders"

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    • Brazil scientists fear golden mussel threat to Amazon River 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 6, 2015, on page A25)
      The world’s mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China. Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s, the golden mussel has claimed ...

    • Full impact of drought seen to spare Central Luzon 

      Dizon, Justine; Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 5, 2016, on page A4)
      In Pangasinan province, extreme heat has killed beds of mussels at the bottom of the Kakiputan Channel separating Bolinao town and the island town of Anda. But Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries ...

    • 'Kapis' makes comeback in Iloilo waters 

      Labiste, Ma. Diosa (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 12, 2002, on page A16)
      First, the good news: two valuable mollusks, the "kapis" (Placuna placenta) or windowpane oysters and "bay-ad" (Placuna sp.) have made a comeback near the shores of Iloilo province. And now the bad news: they may soon ...

    • Mussels gauge health of rivers 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 19, 2019, on page A8)
      Seafood lovers who prize the mussel for its earthy taste and succulent flesh may be unaware of its growing potential in the fight against water pollution. The mussel is the hoover of the sea, taking in phytoplankton for ...

    • Shark tales in RP : The good, the bad 

      Contreras, Volt (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 16, 2004, on page A1-A22)
      At first, the villagers of Barangay Namucon of Tigbauan town showed genuine concern for the giant fish when they saw it lying on their beach on Nov. 4, "heaving and suffering from what looked like a spear wound," according ...