Dagupan pushes drive vs illegal fish pens, cages
Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez has asked the city agriculture office to clear Dagupan’s rivers of all illegal fishing structures, which have sprouted there in the last four months.
Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez has asked the city agriculture office to clear Dagupan’s rivers of all illegal fishing structures, which have sprouted there in the last four months.
Businesses in southern Mindanao stand to lose as much as P300 million in unrealized sales and higher costs this summer alone due to the seven- to eight-hour power outages crippling the entire Mindanao island.
Thirty fishermen were plucked out of sea after the boat they were riding capsized off Jolo, Sulu, on Sunday but two of their companions might have died in the incident, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) here reported on Monday.
If you can’t lick them, eat them. Or feed them to other fish. The knife fish, an ornamental fish whose population has boomed and is harming the aquaculture industry in Laguna Lake, will be converted into fish meal and fed to sea bass cultured at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) research center here.
The Christmas everybody is hoping for in the island village of Pugad is finally here.
The Laguna police took its campaign against criminality from land to inland waters with the launch of an anti-illegal fishing operation in Laguna de Bay and other water tributaries in the province.
Fishermen suffering from huge losses due to last week’s fish kill in the Laguna de Bay are asking local government units (LGUs) for assistance in securing funds provided to lakeside localities by the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA).
A militant fisherfolk alliance has urged the government to take a more scientific action to stop the spread of knife fish in Laguna de Bay rather than come up with “absurd” suggestions.
A fishing village in Zambales is relying on alternative sources of income after the combination of fish cage proliferation and a battery of storms almost depleted the Bangcal River of fish.
In an attempt to assuage public worries over the presence of knife fish in Laguna de Bay, the head of the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) says it will be exploring the good potentials of the ornamental and exotic fish.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau in Eastern Visayas has directed a mining company to pay for the losses of owners of fish pens and cages affected by a fish kill in Lake Bito, MacArthur town, Leyte, last weekend.
Fishermen reported another fishkill in Lake Bito in MacArthur town in Leyte on Saturday, blaming mining activities for the environmental disaster.
Typhoons and heavy rains in the last six years destroyed the earth dikes of more than 1,000 hectares of fishponds dotting the mouth of Pampanga River up to Barangay Sapang Kawayan here, an official said.
