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Pangasinan seeks new fame in 'bangus'
Fishery officials here are exerting efforts to regain Pangasinan's lost glory as the country's top bangus (milkfish) exporter. At the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources national research center here, 51 sabalo (mother ...
- March 24, 2000
Beguiling Basilan
On board SuperFerry 6 en route to Zamboanga City last December, I discovered that one of my cabin mates was a Marine corporal bound for Jolo. When he learned that I was going to Basilan, where he had been previously stationed ...
- February 27, 2000
Sampaloc Lake clean-up mired in controversy
Some 7,000 city residents on Tuesday proclaimed the start of a multisectoral campaign to save Sampaloc Lake from extinction. Students, teachers, senior citizens, government officials and employees, and religious members ...
- March 3, 2000
2.5 % increase in world demand for shrimp, prawn
Philippine shrimps, including tiger prawns, pass world preference for quality. Shrimp culture, according to an expert, is a very good business, with worldwide demand showing consistent growth of 2.5 percent per year estimated ...
- April 27, 2000
Tales of Tubbataha
"Tales from Tubbataha" by Yasmin D. Arquiza and Alan T. White is the second edition of a survey of the "marine paradise" known as Tubbataha Reefs, "a pair of vast coral atolls sprawled in the middle of the Sulu Sea." To ...
- March 24, 2000
Coral deaths, fish kills blamed on shrimp farm
Diapitan Resources Development Corp. cut 14 hectares of mangroves to build its shrimp ponds, aerial photographs confirmed. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, however, has not looked into the violation ...
- May 31, 2000