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3rd Sardines Congress tackles sustainability
The 3rd National Sardines Industry Congress opened yesterday, Oct. 3, in Zamboanga City, dubbed as the Sardines Capital of the Philippines. The three-day event is focusing on the sustainable use of the fish resource, which ...
- October 4, 2018
Galunggong imports to arrive ahead of closed fishing season
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has allowed the entry of up to 17,000 metric tons (MT) of round scad, commonly known as galunggong, which will reach markets ahead of the closed fishing season when supply of the fish is ...
- August 16, 2018
BFAR orders vessel tracking systems for all commercial fishing boats
The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), said all commercial fishing vessels are subject to government tracking and must have vessel monitoring measures (VMM) and ...
- October 11, 2018
Blasted Fish
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and local officials apprehended on June 29 five fishermen on board two bancas who were using a homemade explosive locally known as Bigas-bigas at vicinity waters off Lamit Bay and Simaron ...
- July 2, 2018
Fisheries bureau partly lifts ban on collecting seaweed
Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) 250-2 will allow individual fishermen to collect, sell, trade, and transport Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, subject to seasonal restrictions and permit requirements. The newly-published ...
- October 8, 2018
Senate panel grills BFAR over missed targets on illegal fishing, incomplete data
The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) failed by a wide margin to meet its P1-billion annual target for fines collected in connection with illegal fishing activities, a Senate panel ...
- March 20, 2018
Tuna harvest drives Region 12 to PHL-best fish output by value
Region 12, also known as the South Cotabato-Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-Sarangani-General Santos City (SOCCSKSARGEN) Region, remained the country’s top fish producer with P18 billion in commercial production, or 31% of the ...
- September 3, 2018
Palawan held up as model for fishing in Negros-Cebu strait
Non-governmental organization Oceana Philippines is pushing for the monitoring of all commercial fishing vessels in the provinces along the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape (TSPS), covering the body of water between Negros ...
- January 15, 2018
'Sea of Life' conservation project launched
Vibrant, abundant and teeming with life, this is how most divers and marine conservationists would describe Philippine's oceans and marine life. The country's coral reef area is so biodiverse that it is considered as the ...
- August 14, 2018
SMARTSeas PH Project aims to arrest marine resource degradation
Small-scale fishermen, whose livelihoods depend mainly on municipal waters, require expanded fishing territory due to the continued degradation of the marine habitat, according to Vincent V. Hilomen, project manager of ...
- October 29, 2018