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    • Fishing pact with China eyed 

      Requejo, Rey E. (Manila Standard, December 24, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      National Security Adviser Clarita Carlos suggested Friday a regional regulatory fishing agreement with China amid the latter’s alleged continued activities in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Interviewed on Dobol B TV, Carlos ...

    • Fishing season boosts tuna catch 

      Evora, Robert A. (Manila Standard, February 6, 2013, on page A8)
      The fishing season imposed by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in waters of the Visayas and Mindanao seas has increased the tuna catch in this island and boosted the region's fishing industry. Sablayan municipal ...

    • Fishing vessel with 70,000 liters of oil sinks off Calatagan coast 

      (Manila Standard, August 29, 2023, on page A2)
      A fishing boat with 70,000 liters of diesel sank off the coast of Calatagan, Batangas on Sunday, At least 13 crew members of the Anita DJ II fishing boat were rescued, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Monday. The Anita ...

    • Fishkill 

      Pata, Danny (Manila Standard, February 17, 2015, on page A1)
      A fisherman checks out dead mullets being washed ashore on Manila Bay near Cultural Center of the Philippines on Monday.

    • Focus on Palawan 

      (Manila Standard, November 22, 2022, on page B1)
      When US Vice President Kamala Harris visits Palawan today, many will be listening to echoes of her speech – from as far as Washington, Canberra and Beijing and neighboring capitals from East Asia and Southeast Asia. The ...

    • For global water crisis, climate may be the last straw 

      Hood, Marlowe (Manila Standard, February 15, 2018, on page A5)
      Before man-made climate change kicked in—and well before "Day Zero" in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May—the global water crisis was upon us. Freshwater resources were already badly stressed before heat-trapping ...

    • Foreign Affairs clams up on China threat 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, July 7, 2016, on page A1-A2)
      The Foreign Affairs Department declined to comment Wednesday on China’s threat to make the United States pay the price if it crosses Beijing’s limits in the disputed South China Sea. “We have yet to confirm the report,” ...

    • Forum tackles endangered tawilis 

      (Manila Standard, March 15, 2019, on page C2)
      The University of Santo Tomas recently staged the Tawilis Summit 2019 in a bid to shed light on the most recent scientific information on Sardinella tawilis which was declared endangered species. Tawilis, a freshwater ...

    • France bets on tech and transparency vs Chinese caviar 

      Randolph, Eric (Manila Standard, December 13, 2022, on page B3)
      Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde, France—At the fish farm near Bordeaux, Christophe Baudoin is running an ultrasound device over the belly of a large sturgeon to check its eggs. “Caviar!” he shouts as the monitor shows the right ...

    • Fresh whale stranding on New Zealand beach 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, February 12, 2017, on page B4)
      Rescuers defied a shark threat to form a human chain in a New Zealand bay on Saturday in a bid to keep another 200 whales from becoming stranded a day after hundreds died in a mass beaching. About 150 people waded out up ...

    • From bogeyman to coup plot 

      Laurel, Herman Tiu (Manila Standard, April 28, 2021, on page B1)
      There were several stages of the news spin: it started with the original fake news that tagged the Chinese fishing boats as “CMM” (Chinese Maritime Militia) and continued until the wind-down of the entire agit-prop (agitation ...

    • From Marrakech, hope for climate change 

      La Viña, Tony (Manila Standard, November 22, 2016, on page A4-A5)
      Last Friday, November 18, the 22nd session of the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change closed in Marrakech, Morocco. Two weeks of intense negotiations produced credible outcomes ...

    • From predators to protectors: RP Energy moves to save endangered 'pawikans' in Zambales 

      (Manila Standard, February 23, 1999, on page B4)
      It used to be that these delicate eggs hatched by gentle creatures from the sea ended up in fisherfolk’s household pots. They were a delicacy, and also a source of livelihood. Back in the 1990s, even earlier, marine turtle, ...

    • Frozen fish still in wet markets 

      Flores, Alena Mae (Manila Standard, December 3, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Friday declared a moratorium on its crackdown on imported pink salmon, pompano, and other imported frozen fish products in wet markets effective immediately. The ...

    • Galapagos fights to protect islands 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, February 9, 2018, on page B3)
      With its iconic giant tortoises, crested black iguanas, huge ocean manta rays and a veritable menagerie of other cool creatures, the Galapagos Islands are one of the most beautiful places you will probably never visit. Why ...

    • Galapagos hosts nursery for new tortoise species 

      (Manila Standard, February 2, 2017, on page B3)
      Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter. Nothing disturbs these eastern Santa Cruz tortoises (scientific name Chelondis donfaustoi), which ...

    • Garbage crisis hits, cleanup no use, Cimatu says 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, December 6, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      The country, particularly Metro Manila, is facing a "garbage crisis," according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Secretary Roy Cimatu said clean-up operations were not enough to fix the garbage woes ...

    • Gentle piranha found in Pasig 

      Ardosa, Carlos (Manila Standard, May 28, 2014, on page A6)
      Las Farolas, which turned a year old in April, is also the sanctuary of a friendly variety of piranha called the Red Pacu or Red Belly Pacu, an omnivorous South American freshwater fish. Pacu (scientific name Colossoma ...

    • 'GG' fishing ban proposed 

      Araja, Rio (Manila Standard, October 19, 2015, on page A6)
      Because of overfishing of mackerel scada, popularly known as galunggong, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will impose a fishing ban off Northern Palawan within Sulu Sea from Nov.15 to January next year. BFAR ...

    • Giant lapu-lapu spawners freed into Sarangani Bay 

      Gulle, Jimbo (Manila Standard, July 23, 2017, on page D1)
      Sarangani Bay is now the home of five king grouper spawners donated by Finfish Hatcheries Inc., the largest commercial fishing hatchery in the Philippines. Locally known as “lapu-lapu” or “kugtong,” the giant groupers were ...