Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "illegal fishing"
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2 nabbed for illegal fishing
(Manila Standard,June 19, 2015 , on page A3)For fishing in the waters of Dumangas town using fine mesh nets and active fishing gears, two men were arrested. Their fishing boat was impounded, said Inspector Francis Albert Fortunado, Dumangas police chief. The suspects ... -
41 vessels sunk for fishing in Indonesia
(Manila Standard,May 22, 2015 , on page A2)Indonesia has sunk 41 foreign boats across the archipelago, reports said Thursday, as part of an ongoing push to stop illegal fishing in its waters. Authorities sank the vessels in public displays at several sites Wednesday, ... -
Albay fishers get support
(Manila Standard,October 23, 2012 , on page A6)Poor and marginalized Albay fisherman can now look forward to a more sustainable livelihood after their provincial government provided them vital fishing gear. The Albay office in Makati City said their provincial government ... -
An appetite for sustainability
(Manila Standard,March 13, 2017 , on page D2)A local firm based in Antique is poised to export Philippine slipper oysters to China within the first semester of the year. It will be a pioneering feat for Crystal Bay Oyster Co., and proof that striving to keep our seas ... -
Bantay Dagat volunteers get a benefactor
(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 eyed as ‘food zone’
(Manila Standard,May 9, 2017 , on page A1-A2)Benham Rise could be the key to securing the country’s food security and the Philippines should build a research facility on its shallowest portion to assert its ownership of the resource-rich 13-million-hectare undersea ... -
BFAR recruits personnel
(Manila Standard,January 16, 2015 , on page B1)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said Thursday it enlisted some of its personnel in an intensive law enforcement training program to strengthen the country's fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated ... -
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 ... -
Campaign against illegal fishing earns citation for villar
(Manila Standard,December 24, 2018 , on page A3)Senator Cynthia Villar was recognized by the Department of Agriculture for her role in the enactment of the law against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. During the first command conference of the Philippines ... -
Cebu task force scores victory against dynamite fishing
(Manila Standard,December 16, 2015 , on page B6)Local authorities in Cebu have scored victories in apprehending the transport and trade of fish illegally caught with dynamite. Marcelo Go, Cebu environmental operation officer and concurrent head of Cebu Provincial ... -
‘China should pay PH for WPS damages’
(Manila Standard,April 23, 2020 , on page A3)Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday demanded that the Chinese government should shoulder the costs of the Philippines’ COVID-19 response, in reparation for the annual losses the country has incurred due to China’s damage ... -
China warns: Penalties imposed on illegal fishing
(Manila Standard,August 3, 2016 , on page A1-A2)Beijing on Tuesday announced penalties for “illegal” fishing in its waters, including those it claims in the South China Sea weeks after an international tribunal ruled that those claims have no legal basis. The Supreme ... -
China's failure on marine environment
(Manila Standard,August 9, 2018 , on page A4-A5)One major issue raised by the Philippine government panel before the Permanent Court of Arbitration arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea dispute was China’s failure to live up to its obligations to ... -
Closed fishing seasons violators detected
(Manila Standard,February 25, 2019 , on page A3)Illegal fishing activities thrive in the Visayan Sea during the enforcement of the three-month closed fishing season, lawyer Gloria Estenzo Ramos, vice president of Oceana Philippines said over the weekend. Oceana, the ... -
Conservationists release endangered turtles to sea
(Manila Standard,March 1, 2016 , on page A7)Morong - Hundreds of tiny turtle hatchlings emerge above a Philippine beach at night and immediately look to the sea, hoping to beat huge odds and start a remarkable trans-oceanic journey lasting decades. The olive ridleys, ... -
Coral cure in Bagac, Subic
(Manila Standard,November 12, 2016 , on page C1)The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) are implementing ... -
Davao Gulf tuna fishing prohibited
(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 ... -
Energy firm leads Subic gab on sea turtle conservation
(Manila Standard,July 19, 2018 , on page B4)Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. has conducted a forum here on turtle conservation under its Protect the Bay Initiative program. The discussion, entitled “Lessons from PawiCare,” aimed to share the best practices on how the ... -
Enforce fisheries laws—BFAR
(Manila Standard,October 13, 2016 , on page C2)Stronger law enforcement are needed to achieve sustainable fisheries and seafood self-sufficiency in the Philippines, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources National Director Eduardo Gongona said. Relatedly, the Angono, ... -
Everyone needs the oceans to be protected
(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 ...