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The business of fixing Lingayen Gulf
Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used ...
- February 6, 2013
De Lima tell DU30: be careful with statements on sea row
Sen. Leila de Lima on Thursday called on President Duterte to be careful with his statements about unresolved disputes in the South China Sea, saying his recent remarks viewed as friendly to China tended to undermine ...
- October 28, 2016
Watch how we fish
You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” goes a popular saying in management circles. For our country’s fisheries, this can be a particularly dangerous thing. There is growing recognition that the “blue economy” — the ...
- March 30, 2021
No letup in fish pen demolition
A government team on Tuesday demolished two fish pens covering a total area of 70 hectares in Laguna de Bay as a new deadline for operators to harvest their stock and remove their structures from the lake looms. Joined by ...
- February 15, 2017
Reclamation plan worries Navotas fisherfolk
Around 100 members of Navotas City’s fishing community took to the water on Tuesday in protest against a 650-hectare reclamation project on Manila Bay, which they said would displace around 20,000 people. Setting off on ...
- October 18, 2017
No more fish to catch, or spilt fuel to collect
Wearing the face masks given to them by health and social workers, Rodolfo Lasca, 49, and two neighbors arrived at the village basketball court yesterday to claim their emergency rice ration. Ever since a huge diesel oil ...
- August 11, 2013
DFA: China gives 'no-build' assurance in sea row talks
China has assured the Philippines that it would refrain from conducting any activities on uninhabited areas in the West Philippine Sea, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday. Cayetano said the country had ...
- February 17, 2018
PH Court junks case vs foreign ship in Mindoro collision
A local court dismissed the charges filed against the Chinese crew of the MV Vienna Wood after the owner of the Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier paid the families of the 14 Filipino fishermen, who presumably died in the sea ...
- September 22, 2020
Fishers’ group hits ‘blanket order’ to demolish Laguna de Bay structures
The Alyansa ng mga Pederasyong Kumikilos sa Lawa ng Laguna posed the question as it called for the suspension of the moratorium on aquaculture being imposed by the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA). The group ...
- February 19, 2017
Duterte frees 17 viet fishers to boost ties
Saying that Filipinos now love in a world with "very complicated international relations," President Duterte on Wednesday released 17 Vietnamese fishermen caught on waters off Ilocos Sur province as a friendly gesture ...
- November 3, 2016