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    • Bantay Dagat catches 'super hulbot' fishers 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza (Panay News, June 9, 2018, on page 3-14)
      Thirteen fishermen from San Remigio, Cebu were apprehended off the coast of Barangay Asluman, Carles town for illegal fishing. The Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Force led by Police Officer 1 Hendrick Bunday and Marvin ...

    • Bantay Dagat nabs 'hulbot' fishermen 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza (Panay News, March 19, 2018, on page 4)
      Boat captain Edwin Bacas of Barangay Libas, Roxas City and owner Jessie Tayo of Balud, Masbate were accused by the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force of violation of sections 86 and 97 (unauthorized fishing and ban ...

    • 'Bantay Dagat needs help': paging BFAR, coastguard, PNP! 

      Sologastoa, Glenda (Panay News, July 7, 2017, on page 1-17)
      The Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force could not totally stop illegal fishing activities in Iloilo’s vast territorial waters all by itself, according to Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. Defensor urged other concerned agencies to ...

    • Bantay Dagat nets 'palupad' fishers 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza (Panay News, October 11, 2017, on page 1-14)
      Sixteen fishermen, including their boat captain, from Brgy. Bara, Roxas City have been arrested over the weekend for using trawl, an active gear, within the municipal waters of Concepcion town. Engaging in trawl fishing, ...

    • Bantay Dagat nets 5 illegal fishing boats 

      Garcia, Erly C. (Panay News, October 19, 2012, on page 2)
      The Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force (IPBFTF) apprehended five illegal fishing vessels from October 11 to 15. All the owners of the apprehended vessels paid the compromise fines. However, their illegal fishing ...

    • Bantay Dagat reduces illegal fishing in Capiz 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Capiz (Panay News, February 15, 2023, on page 6)
      An intensified house-to-house campaign in fishing villages is being conducted by the Provincial Bantay Dagat (PBD) to end illegal fishing activities within Pilar’s municipal waters. The PBD, locally known as “Task Force ...

    • ‘Bantay Dagat’ must level up – Defensor 

      Sornito, Ime (Panay News, November 16, 2020, on page 2-14)
      The Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force based in Concepcion town has to improve its capability of securing the province’s waters from poachers, said Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. He planned to procure more “floating assets” and ...

    • Barbaza OFWs, kin to work on artificial reefs 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, March 3, 2015, on page 5)
      Some active overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) or their families affected by supertyphoon "Yolanda" in Barbaza town may work on jackstone-type artificial reefs sometime this month. The job is for the last of the three batches ...

    • Barge owner pressed to pay for oil spill 

      Silubrico, Ruby (Panay News, July 8, 2020, on page 1-14)
      AC Energy Corp., owner of the power barge that discharged bunker oil into this city’s waters following an explosion Friday last week, is being pressed to compensate those adversely affected. “There is no skirting the issue. ...

    • Bataan red tide alert still up 

      Cervantes, Ding (Panay News, April 3, 2014, on page 7)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) yesterday said the red tide plague that hit coastal areas in Bataan last year has remained. In an updated advisory, the BFAR urged the public to refrain from gathering ...

    • Batad man nabbed for illegal fishing 

      Silubrico, Ruby (Panay News, July 14, 2016, on page 5)
      A fisherman was arrested in the waters of barangays Botongon and Naburot, San Dionisio, Iloilo for illegal fishing. The 37-year-old Florante Biben was from Barangay Tanao, Batad town. According to the Iloilo Bantay Dagat ...

    • Batanes flying fish get new portable dryer 

      Ronda, Rainier Allan (Philippine Star, May 3, 2018, on page B8)
      Engineer Sancho Mabborang, DOST Region 2 director, said that the Portasol developed by inventor-entrepreneur Francisco Pagayon, president and CEO of the Filipino Inventors Society Producers Cooperative, would enable efficient ...

    • Batongbacal: Filipino scientists seeded giant clams, China stole it 

      ABS-CBN News; PN (Panay News, April 27, 2019, on page 8-10)
      A maritime affairs expert on Friday said Filipino scientists seeded giant clams in Scarborough Shoal in the late 1980s, only for Chinese fishermen to steal it decades later. Jay Batongbacal, director of the University of ...

    • Be climate change champions - PEMO head 

      (Panay News, July 2, 2016, on page 14)
      Negrenses should stop waiting for a champion to provide solutions to climate change, the Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO) chief said. Everyone should be the champion they are looking for, stressed lawyer ...

    • Beach forest launched 

      Sologastoa, Glenda (Panay News, April 7, 2014, on page 2-32)
      The town of Tigbauan has been chosen as pilot area of the provincial government's beach forest program. The project aims to restore mangrove areas to migrate the adverse effects of climate change. The project covers 10 ...

    • Belgium lauds Boracay rehab, PH bid for sustainable tourism 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Panay News, November 20, 2018, on page B1-B6)
      The Duterte administration's decision to rehabilitate Boracay was a "very good decision" after all, Belgian Ambassador to Manila Michel Goffin said. "Let's be frank, when you cleaned Boracay, when you cleaned El Nido, this ...

    • Benham Rise: Looking at the big picture 

      Del Rosario, Jed Jaleco (Panay News, March 19, 2017, on page 7)
      Benham Rise not part of the country’s national territory. We don’t have sovereignty over it like we do over Cebu, Manila or Iloilo. However, we do have exclusive rights to explore the area and exploit whatever natural ...

    • Better livelihood opportunity for farmers promoted 

      (Panay News, September 1, 2015, on page 16-17)
      Goat raising, a practical business venture requiring low initial capital, is not popular among farmers as a livelihood option due to their lack of proper skills and motivation to improve goat management. To change farmers’ ...

    • Better protection of marine area in Guimaras town sought 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR); PN (Panay News, February 13, 2017, on page 4)
      Locals and the Environment department have come up with a management plan that serves as their pledge for the better conservation of the Balcon Marine Protected Area. The plan involving strategies for area development was ...

    • BFAR assures ample supply of tilapia amid fish kill 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, June 8, 2019, on page B2-B8)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) recently assured there is sufficient supply of tilapia to meet the market’s demand despite the fish kill in Taal Lake, Batangas. ...