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    • Fishers' hub up in Cavite 

      (Manila Standard, October 30, 2016, on page D2)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region 4-A, led by Regional Director Lilian Garcia, released funds for building of Fisherman’s Wharf or (Pandawan) in Barangay San Rafael IV. Mayor Dino Reyes Chua received the ...

    • Fishers' settlement areas bill approved 

      Cruz, Maricel (Manila Standard, February 24, 2021, on page A3)
      The House of Representative has approved on third and final reading a bill mandating the establishment of settlement areas for fishermen throughout the country. The bill's author, Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez, welcomed ...

    • Fishers’ group slams Chinese harassment 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, September 29, 2016, on page A3)
      The activist fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas has condemned the recent harassment by Chinese Coast Guards against Filipino fishermen in Scarborough Shoal. Citing reports from the ...

    • Fishery deal well with in sea ruling' 

      Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, September 1, 2016, on page A1-A2)
      The government on Wednesday assured the public that the provisional fishing agreement that Manila wants to sign with Beijing will be in accordance with the Arbitral Tribunal ruling rejecting China’s claims to the disputed ...

    • Fishery hotline set for Beijing, Hanoi 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 22, 2013, on page B4)
      China and Vietnam have agreed to set up a hotline to resolve disputes in the China Sea, where clashes between fishermen have stoked tensions between the countries, state media reported Tuesday. The agreement was signed by ...

    • Fishing ban set in Visayan Sea 

      (Manila Standard, November 14, 2020, on page A4)
      Fishing within the Visayan Sea is prohibited for three months starting Nov. 15, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said. Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 167-3 series of 2013 established the closed season ...

    • 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 ...