Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "overfishing"
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14 Senate bills about aquaculture near finality
(Manila Standard,May 29, 2017 , on page A3)With the Senate set to approve on third reading 14 bills creating multi-species marine hatcheries, Senator Cynthia Villar said aquaculture will now get a needed boost in the provinces. After hurdling the second reading ... -
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 ... -
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 2-month fishing ban hit
(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 ... -
BFAR-10: Just enough fish for region's needs
(Manila Standard,September 20, 2018 , on page B4)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources here in Northern Mindanao said there is just enough fish supply in the region, most of which is highly dependent on the supply from Zamboanga peninsula. BFAR regional Director ... -
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 ... -
Bill aims to protect sharks and rays
(Manila Standard,December 28, 2016 , on page C1)Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri has filed a bill seeking to prohibit all trade in sharks and rays, both of which are being threatened by unchecked overfishing, including bycatching. Senate Bill 1245 proposes to forbid “the ... -
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 ... -
Conservation confab mulls fate of bluefin
(Manila Standard,November 15, 2016 , on page B4)Fishing and shipping nations gather in Portugal this week to consider the fate of the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna and over-harvested Mediterranean swordfish, two pricey gourmet favorites. While conservationists want ... -
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 ... -
DFA fires off protest vs. 220 Chinese vessels' presence off Palawan
(Manila Standard,March 22, 2021 , on page A1-A2)More than 200 Chinese fishing vessels believed to be crewed by militia have been spotted “in line formation” near a disputed reef west of Palawan Island, the National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) said, ... -
Dutch fishermen fear stormy Brexit seas ahead
(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
(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 ... -
'GG' fishing ban proposed
(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 ... -
Gov't urged to save its seas from overfishing
(Manila Standard,June 8, 2013 , on page A1-A2)At least 13 fishing grounds in the Philippines have been heavily fished and the declining stocks will force local fishermen to go beyond the country's boundaries toward the Malaysian and Indonesian seas to look for catch, ... -
HK's dolphins disappearing
(Manila Standard,November 30, 2015 , on page B7)As to expand its international airport and with a major new bridge project under way, campaigners warn that the dwindling number of much-loved pink dolphins in surrounding waters may disappear altogether. Conservationists ... -
Iloilo Declaration for healthy oceans
(Manila Standard,December 4, 2018 , on page A4-A5)Confidence, optimism and determination reigned in Iloilo City last Thursday, 29 November 2018, as the 2018 East Asian Seas Congress concluded. After three days of events and sessions that brought together various ocean ... -
India says WTO fishing plan favors rich nations
(Manila Standard,November 15, 2021 , on page B3)The latest World Trade Organization proposals on ending fishing subsidies are unfair, weak and favor rich nations, an Indian official told AFP on Friday. Governments spend billions of dollars every year subsidizing fishing ... -
MPIC's shore it up! soars high: celebrate a decade of coastal clean-up drive
(Manila Standard,March 18, 2018 , on page A3)Everyone remembers the day Typhoon 'Ondoy' hit the country in September 2009. In just 12 hours, it brought down 17 inches of rain equivalent to a month's worth of rainfall in one day. Within just a few days, 'Ondoy' put ... -
Overfishing threatens tuna supply
(Manila Standard,September 15, 2012 , on page A3)Senator Loren Legarda on Friday expressed alarm over the declining tuna stocks worldwide due to overfishing. Noting the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which revealed ...