Browsing Manila Bulletin by Place "Taal Lake"

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    • Banker cautions Land Bank, BFAR on rent-a-cage plan 

      Benaning, Marvyn N. (Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2010, on page 14)
      A banker formerly engaged in fish cage culture has cautioned the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and Land Bank on its plan to lease fish cages for mariculture parks to groups of small fisherfolk. Manuel ...

    • BFAR told to regulate fishpens, not ban total harvest of tawilis 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2019, on page 7)
      A local fisherfolk group urged the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to regulate fishpen structures instead of imposing fishing ban on Sardinella tawilis following reports that the only freshwater sardine ...

    • DOST helps Taal lake fisherfolk with solar dryer for 'daing' 

      Usman, Edd K. (Manila Bulletin, November 24, 2015, on page 13)
      The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has focused attention on the small fishermen of Taal Lake in Batangas, as it introduced a solar-powered fisher dryer for their use and improved their livelihood. Through the ...

    • 'Duong' causes Taal fishkill 

      Florendo, Vicky Aclan (Manila Bulletin, January 30, 2014, on page B-8)
      Fishkill in Taal Lake is a predictive phenomenon. It happens every year during the months of January and February. Provincial Environment Specialist Joe Torreja, in an exclusive interview yesterday, said that recent reports ...

    • Fish Kill 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, January 24, 2014, on page 1)
      Workers haul dead milkfish or 'bangus,' from a fish cage in Taal Lake, Batangas, following a fish kill believed caused by increased sulfur content in the water from the active Taal volcano.

    • Fish kill looms in Taal Lake -BFAR 

      Manalo, Lyka (Manila Bulletin, December 15, 2017, on page 15)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region 4A (BFAR-4A) has warned local government units (LGUs) surrounding Taal Lake of a possible fish kill as the temperature continues to drop since November. BFAR-4A issued ...

    • Fish kill rooted in volcanism 

      Zafaralla, Macrina Tamayo (Manila Bulletin, July 24, 2011, on page 11)
      Taal Lake, a caldera, has an ecology that is closely linked to its cradling Taal volcano, one of the 16 volcanoes of the world that erupts every 10 years. We've been studying this lake since 1989. I propose a paradigm to ...

    • Fish mortality cases in Taal, Laguna lakes not due to disease 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, June 25, 2020, on page 2)
      The recent fish mortality cases in Taal Lake and Laguna de Bay were not due to an outbreak of certain diseases, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). In a statement, BFAR said there is no ...

    • Fishpen operators blamed for massive fish kill in Taal Lake 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, November 13, 2018, on page 2)
      A local fisherfolk group blamed fishpen operators in Taal Lake for the massive fish kill in the Lake, which affected P5-million worth of tilapia. The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said ...

    • Insights on Taal tilapia cage culture 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, April 5, 2018, on page B-8)
      Last March 23, we attended a tilapia stakeholders consultative meeting in Talisay, Batangas convened by a major aquafeeds supplier and attended by more that a hundred fishcage operators, hatchery owners, traders and ...

    • Int’l body accused of economic sabotage for listing Tawilis as endangered species 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, February 6, 2019, on page 2)
      Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been accused of economic sabotage for listing Sardinella Tawilis, the only freshwater sardine in the world, as an endangered species, stakeholders ...

    • Tawilis now endangered species 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, January 25, 2019, on page 6)
      Sardinella tawilis, which can only be found in the Philippines, is now an endangered species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Based on IUCN's research, major factors that threaten ...

    • That fish kill in Manila Bay 

      (Manila Bulletin, September 22, 2020, on page 4)
      Hundreds of dead fish started floating to the surface of Manila Bay near the Baseco compound in Manila Bay Thursday morning, September 17, after a night of heavy rains over Manila. Because of the recent controversy over ...

    • Tilapia from Taal Lake still safe to eat - DENR 

      Manalo, Lyka (Manila Bulletin, June 2, 2019, on page 7)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-Calabarzon) has given the assurance that tilapia fish in markets are still safe to eat amidst a massive fish kill that hit Taal Lake Monday. “We are calling on the ...