Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "research"

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    • Agri officials hail building of fisheries lab in Iloilo town 

      Labiste, Ma. Diosa (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 12, 2003, on page A15)
      Agriculture and fishery officials welcomed the establishment of a biotechnology laboratory here as "uplifting news" in aqua0culture industry amid the global gloom spawned by th crisis in the Middle East. The facility, built ...

    • Argentinian firm farmesa plans P300-M seaweed processing plant in PH 

      Canivel, Roy Stephen (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 15, 2017, on page B3)
      Argentinian food ingredient-producer Farmesa wants to put up a P300-million processing plant in the Philippines, marking its first manufacturing initiative overseas, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). ...

    • At 86, still a marine biodiveristy champion 

      Grafe, Nova Veraley; Acedo, Celia (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 1, 2015, on page A9)
      His silver hair and well-toned skin hardly reveal his age of 86 years. In fact, listening to him talk in his usual passionate and thickly accented manner, one may even imagine him to be a few decades younger. Speaking about ...

    • Ban on tuna fishing in the Pacific: Boon or bane? 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 4, 2010, on page A14)
      Conservation measures are generally instituted to prevent the collapse of fish stocks due to overfishing. These can be in the form of closing an area for any fishing activity, limiting the amount of fish that can be caught ...

    • Cayetano Defends Granting China Research Access to Benham Rise 

      Pazzibugan, Dona Z. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 14, 2018, on page A6)
      Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has defended the Duterte administration’s move allowing China to conduct marine research in Benham Rise off eastern Luzon, indicating that the grant of permission did not break any ...

    • China to start building on reclaimed land reclaimed from disputed sea 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 17, 2015, on page A1-A8)
      First the horizontal development, now the vertical development. The foreign ministry on Tuesday said China would complete within days its land reclamation projects on disputed areas in the South China Sea in an apparent ...

    • DLSU-SHORE, WWF Phils. team up for coral reef research 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 26, 2019, on page C2)
      DE La Salle University Br. Alfred Shields FSC Ocean Research Center (DLSUSHORE) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines embarked on consecutive reef research trips last April and May of this year. Dubbed ...

    • FirstGen bankrolls Batangas marine ecosystem project 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 17, 2015, on page B3-3-B3-4)
      Rey Manalo is an active and vocal advocate of the Bantay Dagat (Sea Patrol) program in Mabini, Batangas. Quite a departure from his younger days when Manalo was a menace to the marine ecosystem of Batangas, being a muro-ami ...

    • Fisheries center opens door to investors 

      Remo, Amy R. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 4, 2008, on page B2)
      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's Aquaculture Development has opened its doors to businessmen looking at possible investments in aquaculture under an agree-build-operate-transfer scheme (Abot). According to ...

    • Fisheries research facilities established by new laws 

      Aurelio, Julie M. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2019, on page A11)
      President Duterte has signed two laws creating fisheries research facilities in Cagayan and Lanao del Norte. Republic Act No. 11400 establishes a fisheries research center in Abulug, Cagayan, while RA 11401 establishes a ...

    • Giant clam 're-wilding' waters near Semirara mine site 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 12, 2016, on page B6)
      In 2006, the company released 150 pieces of the Tridacna gigas, an endangered species of giant clams, near the waters of Panian mine on Semirara Island in Caluya, Antique province. Citing research, the firm says these giant ...

    • Graft-tainted fund to aid farmers, fishers extended 

      Cabacungan, Gil (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 16, 2015, on page A6)
      The House has approved a bill extending the corruption-tainted Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (Acef) by another seven years up to 2022. The House committee on agriculture and food approved House Bill No. ...

    • Higher budget urged for aggie research 

      Quimpo, Margie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 18, 1987, on page 1)
      The government has to invest more on research activities to push economic development in the country. This was stated by Dr. Flor Lacanilao, chief of the SEAFDEC (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center) Aquaculture ...

    • 'Like the Molave' in coastal greenbelts 

      Doyo, Ma. Ceres (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2012, on page A13)
      And so it is gratifying to know that our marine scientists are focusing on the Philippines’ endangered mangrove associates and other beach forest species. Dr. Jurgenne Honculada Primavera and Dr. Resurreccion “Rex” B. ...

    • No slow days for turtle expert despite retirement 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2018, on page A6)
      Unlike the marine turtles that he had spent years studying, Romeo Trono has apparently never had slow days—even in retirement. Contemplating the sunset by the beach while sipping rum mixed with Coke, Trono, 59, could easily ...

    • Notice to the public 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 16, 2015, on page H7)
      This is to inform the general public that the area along the shores of Laguna de Bay in Tapao Point, Brgy. Pipindan, Binangonan, Rizal occupied by the Binangonan Freshwater Station (BFS) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries ...

    • PH to turn Pag-asa into tourist attraction 

      Tubeza, Philip C. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 22, 2017, on page A1-A4)
      The government has set aside P1.6 billion to turn the biggest Philippine-held island in the Spratlys into a tourist attraction and marine research center, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday. Lorenzana visited ...

    • Plankton: Research focuses on small things that's keeping world alive 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 26, 2021, on page IP)
      The strange metal box hauled from the waves and onto the ship's deck looks like a spaceship fished from a child's imagination. But when scientist Clare Ostle opens it up and draws out the silk scrolls inside, she is looking ...

    • President to visit ph rise launch research study 

      Aurelio, Julie M. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 9, 2018, on page A6)
      President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Benham Rise on May 15-16 to celebrate the first anniversary of his renaming the underwater land mass Philippine Rise. While at Philippine Rise, the President will also lead the launching ...

    • R&D in Agusan Marsh 

      Primavera, Jurgenne H. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2010, on page A14)
      The Agusan Marsh comprises 11 habitat types and subtypes—the freshwater swamp forest (with Terminalia, peat swamp and sago palm forest subtypes), secondary scrub forest, herbaceous swamp forest, open water (oxbow/floodplain ...