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    • Extreme weather hits tilapia output 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, March 28, 2017, on page A2)
      “The major tilapia producing regions in the Philippines are now experiencing significant impacts from the progressing negative effects of climate change,” according to a report prepared by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...
    • Geothermal plant to help raise healthier fish, shrimps 

      Mercurio, Richmond (Malaya, February 25, 2014, on page A3)
      Renewable energy company Emerging power, Inc. (EPI) plans to hit two birds with one stone with it soon to rise 40-Megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant in Mindoro. EPI said the completion of the Montelago geothermal power ...
    • Heavy pollutants plague Seven Lakes 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, March 27, 2018, on page A4)
      The appearance of white worms bodes ill for the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, Laguna. The worms, called by local fishermen "puting bulate," are found in the guts of Nile tilapia caught in the Seven Lakes. The worms have alerted ...
    • Laguna de Bae and its knifefish 

      Aspillera, Dahli (Malaya, October 20, 2017, on page B5)
      Laguna de Bae is the largest fresh water lake of all of South East Asia, 12 leagues wide (66 kilometers) and very deep. Centuries past, fishing from this lake was productive, for subsistence fisherfolks, but not anymore ...
    • Move over GG, tilapia's now poor man's fish 

      Sarga, Dwight (Malaya, February 12, 2010, on page A1-A3)
      Tilapia is the preferred food of most Filipinos than galunggong (mackerel scad) during hard times, indicating that if tilapia price rises, hunger incidence would also go up, the National Economic and Development Authority ...
    • Science comes to endangered Lake Sebu 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, October 12, 2018, on page A2)
      A new species of freshwater crab was discovered last year in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. The Sundathelphusa miguelito crab is "very likely to be endemic in Mindanao, and further study," says Jose C. E. Mendoza, a lecturer ...
    • Taal fisherfolk move to save catch 

      (Malaya, February 3, 2020, on page A1)
      The Taal Lake Aquaculture Inc. (TLAAI) has appealed to government authorities to give its members sufficient window hours every day to feed and harvest thousands of tons of healthy, marketable fish still in their cages. ...
    • Tilapia with better genes swims upstream to Cordillera highlands 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, March 23, 2018, on page A2)
      The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD), Department of Science and Technology, has approved a P4.1-million grant to determine the best strain of tilapia ...