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    • Ocean Month celeb bats for 'detoxifying' waters 

      Subong, Elsa (The Daily Guardian, May 17, 2016, on page B6)
      The 17th year of the Ocean Month celebration in May 2016 focuses is on the need to cure the oceans and the coastal areas of toxic elements. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), which spearheads the ...

    • Oil spill victims can't claim from IOPC Funds 

      Yap, Tara (The Daily Guardian, August 19, 2013, on page 2)
      Uncompensated victims of the 2006 oil spill in Guimaras can no longer claim from the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds). This is based on the incident report posted on the official website of IOPC ...

    • Oil spill victims seek PNoy's help 

      Yap, Tara (The Daily Guardian, August 13, 2013, on page 1-10)
      Some 1,000 remaining victims/claimants of the 2006 Guimaras oil spill have yet to receive their compensations seven years after the tragedy. This time, the claimants are asking President Benigno Aquino III’s help in releasing ...

    • One more Capiz town positive for red tide 

      Billones, Jomarie A. (The Daily Guardian, December 9, 2015, on page 4)
      Another town here is positive for red tide toxin or paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) based on latest sampling. The town of President Roxas joined the Ivisan, Sapian, and Pilar in the list of red tide contaminated areas. ...

    • Open harvest for 'diwal' 

      Billones, Jomarie (The Daily Guardian, April 21, 2015, on page 2-7)
      Mayor Angel Alan Celino will announce Wednesday, April 22, the open harvest for angel wings, locally known as "diwal". Policarpio Altamia Jr., chairman of the City Fishery and Aquatic Resources Management Council (CFARMC), ...

    • Oplan balik sugpo: New AQD chief bares plan for SEAFDEC activities 

      (The Daily Guardian, October 19, 2017, on page B1, B6)
      Other than streamlining its Research and Development programs, the new chief of the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Tigbauan, Iloilo is eyeing to revive the ...

    • P1.65-million haul: Three nabbed for ‘poaching’ endangered marine species 

      Rendon, Jennifer (The Daily Guardian, December 21, 2017, on page 2-7)
      Three workers of a Filipino-Chinese businessman were arrested after endangered marine species were seized from their possession. Rosalie Medina, Jovin Mangubat, and Rolito Torres, were arrested 11 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2017, ...

    • P100M worth of projects for Negros farmers, fisherfolks in 2018 

      Yasa, Dolly (The Daily Guardian, August 21, 2018, on page 6)
      The Negros Occidental provincial government is allocating close to P100 million worth of projects for Negrense farmers and fisherfolk this year. This was announced by Board Member Victor Javellana on August 19, 2018 in his ...

    • P15-M national abalone breeding project in Iloilo 

      Fernandez, Jeehan V. (The Daily Guardian, July 16, 2007, on page 8-17)
      Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Arthur Yap launched last week the P15 million national abalone breeding and culture program spearheaded by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and Bureau of ...

    • P16.9M in livelihood projects for fisherfolks 

      Santiagudo, Emme Rose (The Daily Guardian, August 24, 2018, on page 3-15)
      Iloilo City needs P16.9 million for the proposed project “Enhancement of Fisherfolk Capacity and Livelihood Development for Community Resiliency” for the fisherfolk sector of the community. According to City Agriculturist ...

    • P18.5-M seaweed production project in Guimaras 

      (The Daily Guardian, February 5, 2015, on page B1-B7)
      Seaweed production in the island-province of Guimaras will get a boost from the latest partnership of the provincial Government of Guimaras, The Department of Agriculture Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), and ...

    • P20-M agro-fishery lab center to rise in NegOcc 

      EPN; Philippine News Agency (PNA); (The Daily Guardian, February 28, 2018, on page 6-7)
      A PHP20-million agro-fishery laboratory center under the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) will rise in Negros Occidental this year. “There is a need for the province to improve its laboratory services especially ...

    • P39-M loan for Aklan farmers, fishers 

      (The Daily Guardian, April 17, 2018, on page 7)
      Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol has approved a P39-million credit support under the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Production Loan Easy Access (PLEA) program to farmers and fisherfolk of Aklan. “Instead of ...

    • P4M-seaweed processing plant to rise in Guimaras 

      De los Santos, Maricyn A. (The Daily Guardian, July 10, 2017, on page B1)
      A P4-MILLION seaweed processing plant is set to rise in Brgy. Concordia, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras in August 2017. A first in Western Visayas, the facility targets to process into powder at least one ton of fresh seaweeds ...

    • P5M crab hatchery to rise in Concepcion 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza A. (The Daily Guardian, February 13, 2018, on page B1)
      The Iloilo provincial government will put up a P5-million crab hatchery in Concepcion town in 2018 to help conserve and restore the population of kasag or blue swimming crab here. In partnership with the Bureau of Fisheries ...

    • P6-M facility to boost fish production in Capiz 

      Lena, Perla (The Daily Guardian, March 17, 2018, on page 9)
      The towns of Pontevedra and Sapian are the first two recipients of fish landing centers in Capiz from BFAR. Five other fish landing centers will be constructed in Pilar, President Roxas, Panay, and Ivisan. Each center costs ...

    • P75 million spent on shore protection in southern Iloilo 

      Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Region VI; Regional Public Affairs and Information Office (RPAIO) (The Daily Guardian, April 2, 2019, on page 11)
      The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Iloilo 1st District Engineering Office, allocated P75 million from its 2019 budget to complete the construction of the shore protection in Guimbal, Iloilo. District Engineer ...

    • Pasig River wins 1st Asia RiverPrize award! 

      Pedrosa, Carmen N. (The Philippine Star, September 20, 2018, on page 11)
      Last week while in Singapore my son gave me an autographed book of Victor Mallet’s River of Life, River of Death. It is about the Ganges in India. That led us to talk about the Pasig River which is the equivalent of rivers ...

    • PCAARRD project promotes mud crab hatchery and nursery technologies 

      Aya, Rose Anne M. (The Daily Guardian, May 3, 2018, on page 13, 12)
      Mud crab farming has long been established in the Philippines. In fact, the country is the second top producer in the world. As most mud crab farmers rely on crab seeds from the wild, reduced landings and mean capture size ...

    • PCG denies extorting fishes in Olotayan 

      Celino, Felipe V. (The Daily Guardian, June 10, 2013, on page B2)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) based in Olotayan Island denied its personnel extort fishes from bigtime fishing operators to allow them access to the city’s fish sanctuary projects. Petty Officer Jonathan Bornales said ...