Officials of Teresa town in Rizal province—which ended up a “catch basin” for spilled bunker fuel—were considering suing the cement company responsible for leaking oil into the Teresa River. Marlon Pielago, Teresa environment ...

The Senate version of the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) would deny control and supervision over fisheries and other resources in lakes, rivers and inland bodies of water in their region to the Bangsamoro government. ...

Hundreds of “bangus” (milkfish) floated in ponds and cages in Barangay Salapingao here over the weekend, but many fish growers harvested their stocks before the fish kill, which was traced to a phenomenon called “neap tide” ...

A stranded seven-foot, 176-kilogram giant grouper, the largest reef-dwelling fish in the world, was found by a fisherman in the shore of Libertad town in Antique province on Wednesday. Jesie Cacam, a fisherman from Barangay ...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill shortening the period of time before an abandoned fishpond could revert to being categorized as forest land. Hose Bil No. 5845, authored by Bulacan Rep. Linabelle Ruth Villarica, ...

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Thursday declared his support to the legal struggle of the Philippine government against the “aggressive acts” of China in the West Philippine ...

Medium- and large-scale commercial fishers are joining small operators in a nationwide “fishers strike” to push for the repeal of the amended fisheries code, which they say spells the death of the industry. To protest the ...

Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala has signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Amended Fisheries Code, even as commercial fishers opposing the law held a fishers’ strike and held off supplies from ...

Here’s the rub. Under Region 12’s land use plan, Ned is a watershed area. If mining goes irresponsibly, as what we have witnessed of late, people living in the barangay and close to it would hardly feel its implications. ...

Filipino bishops called on the nation Monday to storm the heavens with prayers for the protection of the Philippines and a peaceful resolution of the country’s territorial dispute with China in the West Philippine Sea. The ...