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Sustain local fishers
Among Christians keeping the Lenten tradition to fast and abstain from meat and other indulgences, “Semana Santa (Holy Week)” means putting the spotlight on fish and other seafood on the dining table. This Lenten demand ...
- April 17, 2023
More Filipinos fishing in Bajo de Masinloc -- PCG
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Friday, March 25, 2022, that there are more Filipino fishermen fishing off waters in Bajo de Masinloc in Zambales. The PCG said from February 28 to March 5, they monitored around ...
- March 28, 2022
Night fishing in Oslob
Summer is the peak season when schools of glistening kalamputi are drawn to the drumming of the wooden boats and the glare of the bright lights. A mix of newly spawned fish species, kalamputi are silver white fishes that ...
- March 7, 2021
Globe-powered ISDApp to keep 300 fisherfolks in Dingalan, Aurora safe at sea
Three hundred fisherfolks in Dingalan, Aurora will soon be able to properly monitor weather conditions for safe sailing, especially during the typhoon season as ISDApp launches in their coastal community this May. ISDApp ...
- June 2, 2021
Cadiz dried fish industry unshaken amid Covid-19
Cadiz City is the dried fish capital of Negros Occidental. It is the number one product of Cadiz City. The city is an exporter of dried fishes to America and Canada and, likewise, it supplies the demand in the province of ...
- July 18, 2020
Minalin fisherfolks get P135-K worth of fishing gears
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) continues to assist fisherfolks despite the virus pandemic as it distributed on Wednesday morning various fishing gears in this town. BFAR Central Luzon Regional Director ...
- July 3, 2020
Fishing boat capsizes off San Carlos City, 4 rescued
Four people were rescued after their fishing boat capsized due to rough seas off the waters of San Carlos City in Negros Occidental on March 1. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Negros Occidental chief Jansen Benjamin, identified ...
- March 4, 2020
Fishing ban at Visayan sea lifted
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) lifted the three-month closed fishing season in the Visayan Sea earlier this week. Under the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) No. 167-3 Series of 2013, the government ...
- February 20, 2021
House OKs bill providing settlement sites for fisherfolk
A House committee recently approved on third and final reading a landmark legislation that seeks to provide permanent resettlement sites to tens of thousands of Filipino fisherfolk and their families. House Bill 6876, ...
- February 17, 2021
Jeepney drivers try fishing for 'survival'
If you come to Macajalar bay one sunny, if not cloudy morning and see a group of people in desperate attempt to catch fishes from near the shoreline -- don't be surprised anymore. It's called "survival mode" after City ...
- March 25, 2020