The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) should have more big vessels for patrolling Philippine waters, food advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan said. Tugon Kabuhayan convener Asis G. Perez, a former BFAR national ...

The shrimp industry said it expects production to keep up with demand as the holiday season approaches and with the recovery of the economy. Christopher G. Co, Oversea Feeds Corp. vice-president, said at a recent virtual ...

Fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) is preparing a nationwide boycott campaign against the government’s plan to import fish. “It would be a campaign to boycott the imported ...

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) warned consumers from eating shellfish harvested from Bislig Bay, Surigao del Sur after the area tested positive for paralytic shellfish poison or red tide contamination. ...

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) announced that areas in Leyte and Negros Oriental are officially free from red tide contamination. BFAR said in its 19th bulletin that shellfish harvested in Cancabato ...

The fish supply has been judged sufficient to meet demand up to the end of 2020, according to the Department of Agriculture. In a virtual briefing Tuesday, Undersecretary Cheryl Marie Natividad-Caballero said that at the ...

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) declared the area of Irong-Irong Bay in Western Samar officially free from red tide contamination. In its 21st shellfish bulletin for the year, BFAR said red tide warnings ...

Several parts of the Visayas remain contaminated with red tide, which makes all types of shellfish and Acetes sp. or alamang unsafe for human consumption. The affected areas list now includes San Pedro Bay in Western Samar, ...

The national government should increase its efforts against foreign fishing vessels within Philippine waters as mandated by local and international laws following China’s declaration of an annual fishing ban in the South ...

Commercial fishing in municipal waters pervades amid the coronavirus pandemic and the government should step up its monitoring and apprehension of violators to protect small fisherfolk, according to marine conservation ...