DAGUPAN CITY—The town government of Bolinao, Pangasinan, has asked the owners of the sunken ship, MV Harita Bauxite, to immediately stop the vessel’s oil from spilling into the West Philippine Sea to prevent further damaging coastal communities. Lawyer Ayar Montemayor, spokesperson of the Bolinao government, said Mayor Alfonso Celeste had written the ship’s owners [...]
Very June 1, Romeo Rulloda, a fisherman, pulls his single-engine, 16-horsepower wooden boat to a dry dock and hangs his fishing lines near his house in the coastal village of Balingasay in Bolinao, Pangasinan.
Here comes a different version of the Bolinao “ramming” incident—it may not have happened after all.
DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan, Philippines—Fishkill struck the Kakiputan Channel in Bolinao and Anda towns in Pangasinan on Sunday and Monday, killing about 70 tons of bangus (milkfish) there, an official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the Ilocos region said on Monday. Nestor Domenden, BFAR regional director, said the sudden change in temperature [...]
HEEDING the advice of a marine biologist, a private foundation seeded a part of the Albay Gulf with 100 giant clams taken from Bolinao town in Pangasinan last year, hoping that this would improve the biodiversity of a dive site. Seven months after, the clams (Tridacna gigas) are alive and thriving, reveals Arlie Juarez, recreation [...]
