Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "commercial fishing"

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    • Bantay Dagat volunteers get a benefactor 

      Loyola, James (Manila Standard, August 3, 2015, on page C-4)
      For the past 11 years, First Gen Corporation has been quietly helping protect the fragile ecosystem of the Verde Island passage which has been recognized as the center of the world's marine biodiversity. Unknown to many, ...

    • Benham on the rise 

      Robles, Jojo (Manila Standard, March 15, 2017, on page A4-A5)
      Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio explained that the Philippines enjoys sovereign rights but does not have sovereignty over the plateau, which is believed to hold huge amounts of minerals and oil, apart ...

    • BFAR 2-month fishing ban hit 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, November 14, 2016, on page A6)
      The municipal chapter of the group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas in Lemery, Batangas on Sunday lamented a two-month fishing ban in Balayan Bay, saying it would affect thousands of fisherfolk from ...

    • Bicolano fishers act to conserve tuna 

      (Manila Standard, July 16, 2015, on page C3)
      Along the coast of Tiwi in Albay, a group of fishermen’s wives mends fishnets as they wait for their husbands to return. It is June, the season for yellowfin tuna. The first of the bancas arrive, unloading a decent haul ...

    • Davao Gulf tuna fishing prohibited 

      Gonzales, Anna Leah (Manila Standard, June 3, 2015, on page B6)
      The government has imposed a three-month ban on fishing tuna and other species in the Davao Gulf after the regional office of Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources learned that the species actively spawn this time of ...

    • Dutch fishermen fear stormy Brexit seas ahead 

      Van Ouwerkerk, Charlotte (Manila Standard, February 27, 2019, on page A5)
      It's a beautiful spring morning on an unusually calm North Sea, but from the wheelhouse of his trawler Dutch skipper Cor Vonk can see a man-made storm brewing. For decades Dutch fishermen like Vonk and his family, from the ...

    • Everyone needs the oceans to be protected 

      Bloomberg (Manila Standard, September 18, 2016, on page A3-A4)
      Ensuring that these ecosystems stay healthy is getting harder, as the oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide and overfishing escalates, aided by advances in deep-water fishing technology. Carbon dioxide turns the water more ...

    • Fisherfolk want moratorium on boat, fish registration 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, February 7, 2017, on page A3)
      The militant fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas on Monday called for a temporary suspension of some of the provisions on the amended Fisheries Code of 1998 or Republic Act 10654, ...

    • League, Ocean team up to stop illegal fishing 

      (Manila Standard, March 1, 2019, on page A6)
      The League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) and Oceana, the world’s largest international marine advocacy organization, entered into a partnership to stop, fight and deter illegal fishing in municipal waters ...

    • Monitoring devices in fishing vessels opposed 

      Monzon, Alden M. (Manila Standard, April 6, 2015, on page S1/11)
      A Zamboanga-based group has opposed a new law requiring monitoring and surveillance devices to be installed in commercial fishing vessels, saying that the move will entail additional costs. The Southern Philippines Deep ...

    • 'Protect local fishing grounds' 

      (Manila Standard, September 24, 2018, on page B4)
      Two environment groups are opposing the opening of municipal waters to commercial fishers, to give priority access to small fisherfolk and prevent further collapse of fishing grounds. Oceana Philippines and Philippine Earth ...

    • State of Fish and Fishers 

      La Viña, Dean Tony (Manila Standard, August 1, 2015, on page A9)
      The President’s last State-of-the-Nation Address, as we expected, was an attempt to capture the gains of his administration. While I wish his report were more coherent, I trust that the accomplishments he recounted are ...

    • ‘Stop coastal reclamations’ 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, October 10, 2016, on page A3)
      Fishermen and farmers from different regions on Sunday called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to stop all coastal reclamations and conversion projects that are damaging the environment and threatening ...

    • Zambo peninsula under fishing ban 

      Rimando, A. Perez. (Manila Standard, October 7, 2014, on page B6)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will implement a five-month ban against fishing for sardine fish, Tamban, in the waters of Zamboanga peninsula, Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi starting in November, a senior ...