Philippine Daily Inquirer: Recent submissions

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    • Batangas waters cleared of harmful starfish species 

      Mallari, Delfin Jr (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 6, 2022, on page A7)
      Thousands of crown-of-thorns starfish (COT) were removed from the seas off Batangas province by authorities who were responding to the outbreak of the poisonous starfish that could endanger local natural resources. The ...

    • Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Shellfish Bulletin No. 21, Series of 2022, 21 October 2022 

      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 23, 2022, on page A4)
      Shellfishes collected and tested from coastal waters of Milagros; Sapian Bay (Ivisan and Sapian), coastal waters of Roxas City, Panay, PresidentRoxas, and Pilar in Capiz; coastal waters of Dauis and Tagbiliran City in ...

    • Onward to a more progressive Iloilo 

      Fernandez-Brojan, Connie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2023, on page B3-2)
      Imagine this: business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are operating along the beaches. Food products are sourced from local farmlands that had been converted into Instagrammable tourism destinations. These are among ...

    • PH joining world's largest naval exercise 

      Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2022, on page A6)
      The Philippines will send one of its two guided-missile frigates to the world’s largest naval exercise involving about 25,000 personnel from 26 countries at the end of the month. BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151) will sail from ...

    • A firm voice to China 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 31, 2022, on page A6)
      After meeting with top diplomats from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and India last week, incoming President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. outlined his approach toward China’s persistent incursions in the West Philippine ...

    • Groups strengthen efforts to protect ‘pawikan’ nesting site, coral reefs in Subic Bay 

      Aglibot, Joanna Rose (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 21, 2022, on page A8)
      Carrying trash bags, local licensed scuba divers went into the waters off All Hands Beach Resort here on Friday to collect underwater garbage as part of a multisectoral initiative to protect the marine and coastal environment ...

    • Eyes on WPS: Coast Guard builds command outposts on 3 islands 

      Cabalza, Dexter (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 21, 2022, on page A2)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has set up command-observation posts (COPs) on three islands in the Kalayaan Island Group in Palawan province, which are expected to improve its maritime domain awareness in the West ...

    • Navy to order 6 more patrol vessels 

      Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 23, 2022, on page A2)
      The Philippines will order six offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for P30 billion from South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to boost its capability to protect national interests, particularly in the West ...

    • Newest PH Coast Guard vessel arriving next week 

      Ramos, Marlon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 28, 2022, on page A6)
      Philippine and Japanese officials on Friday witnessed the maiden voyage of the latest Japanese-built sea asset of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) that will be deployed to patrol the country’s territorial waters. Adm. ...

    • DENR cancels ECC of reclamation project in Coron 

      Miranda, Romar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 23, 2022, on page A12)
      There is now very little chance that the halted 51-hectare reclamation project in the tourist town of Coron in Palawan province can still resume after the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment ...

    • Palawan local gov't won't yield on halted Coron reclamation project 

      Miranda, Romar; Corrales, Nestor (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 28, 2022, on page A8)
      The provincial government of Palawan is not taking the shutdown of its prime reclamation project on the island town of Coron sitting down even as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said it would ...

    • Coast Guard finds debris of sunken boat in Palawan waters 

      Miranda, Romar; Santos, Tina G.; Semilla, Nestle (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 31, 2022, on page A5)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has already tracked the possible location of the sunken fishing vessel that collided with a foreign commercial vessel in the waters near Maracanao Island in Agutaya town, Palawan province, ...

    • Gov’t protests China’s fishing ban extending to PH waters 

      Santos, Tina (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 1, 2022, on page A1)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has filed a diplomatic protest against China’s unilateral imposition of a three-and-half-month fishing ban in the South China Sea, saying the prohibition encroaches into parts of the ...

    • Locsin nixes joint probe of Recto Bank hit-and-run 

      Pazzibugan, Dona (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 22, 2019, on page A1)
      Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday rejected a proposal by his colleagues in the Cabinet for a joint investigation with China of the June 9 sinking of a Philippine fishing boat and the abandonment of its 22-man ...

    • Plant as many trees, indigenous or not, now 

      Fuentebella, Nelia (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 6, 2013, on page A15)
      Dr. J.H. Primavera is not the first person I have heard of who is critical of planting mahogany and other exotic trees because of its supposed toxic substance (Inquirer, 2/14/13). We at the Trees for Life Foundation do not ...

    • Du30 counts on China's word PH fishermen won't be harmed 

      Aurelio, Julie; Salaverria, Leila (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 3, 2019, on page A8)
      President Rodrigo Duterte wants China’s “continuing assurance” that Filipinos will not be harmed while fishing in the heavily disputed South China Sea, Malacañang said on Tuesday. Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo ...

    • Japanese whalers return to port with first catch: 2 Minkes 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 3, 2019, on page A13)
      Japanese whalers returned to port Monday with their first catch after resuming commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years, achieving the long-cherished goal of traditionalists that is seen as largely a lost cause ...

    • Gene- edited salmon may soon hit menus 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 22, 2019, on page A10)
      Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny fish. After growing to roughly 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) in indoor tanks, they could ...

    • Angat water for Metro Manila further cut; reduction till June 30 

      Reyes-Estrope, Carmela (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 22, 2019, on page A4)
      The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) has again reduced the water allocation of Metro Manila from Angat Dam as the regulator expected the level at the reservoir to hit the critical mark of 160 meters above sea level. ...

    • Overuse, climate change kill off Iraq's Sawa Lake 

      Agence France-Pressse (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 29, 2022, on page A9)
      A "No Fishing" sign on the edge of Iraq's western desert is one of the few clues that this was once Sawa Lake, a biodiverse wetland and recreational landmark. Human activity and climate change have combined to turn the ...