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'He vever cried': Father attributes survival to son's courage
Richie Bustamante lost his consciousness four times as he and 39 fellow passengers spent about an hour adrift in the turbulent Iloilo Strait. But the 34-year-old security guard from Buenavista town in Guimaras Island quickly ...
- August 6, 2019
Solon wants motor bancas to continue operations but..
Guimaras Rep. Ma. Lucille Nava wants the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) to continue allowing wooden-hulled boats, or motor bancas, to ferry passengers from Iloilo to Guimaras and vice versa. In her privilege speech, ...
- August 16, 2019
UP Visayas lends RT PCR Machine to WVMC for COVID-19 testing
Iloilo City is fortunate to have PCR Machines in WVMC, USA C2B2 Laboratory, Philippine Genome Center Visayas (UPV), South East Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) and WVSU. With increased ...
- March 28, 2020
UP, ISCOF grads dominate Fisheries Technologist exams
Graduates of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) in Miag-ao, Iloilo and Iloilo State College of Fisheries (ISCOF) in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo clinched the top spots in the October 2019 Fisheries Technologist ...
- October 30, 2019
State of calamity looms: Guimaras town reels from oil spill
The town of Buenavista in Guimaras province may be free from indigenous cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) but it has not been spared from the ill-effects of the oil spill that hit Iloilo Strait last week. Mayor Eugenio ...
- July 10, 2020
More wild fishes for Iloilo River
Over a thousand additional wild fishes were released to Iloilo River recently. These included 786 managat, 168 lapu-lapu, 125 kikiro, and 90 saguisi. The initiative is part of continued rehabilitation efforts to improve ...
- January 14, 2021
Newly-discovered dolphin in Bicol hints at biodiversity under threat
The first-ever sighting of an Irrawaddy dolphin off the shore of Calabanga, Camarines Sur, has left scientists of the University of the Philippines excited but concerned over the possibility of as-yet undiscovered marine ...
- September 30, 2022
Capiz fish farmers laud CFOS-IA's livelihood support program
The Roxas City Aquaculture Association (RACA), Province of Capiz, lauded the livelihood support initiative of the Institute of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS-IA), UP Visayas (UPV). Mr. Manuelito ...
- August 4, 2022
A hard problem with a soft solution: Catfish farm’s production surges after easy fix
There are not enough catfish in the “Catfish Country” of Zarraga, Iloilo, but recent findings in one farm may just be the catalyst that could catapult the fish into abundance. Zarraga Pantat Fingerlings was one of the many ...
- February 20, 2021
UPV-CFOS conducts training on green mussel hatchery production anew
The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UP Visayas (UPV-CFOS) trained a new set of participants on hatchery production of green mussel (Perna viridis) spats on May 29 to June 2, 2023. Eleven (11) trainees actively ...
- June 8, 2023