The entire police force of Batuan town on Ticao Island in Masbate province, including its chief, were relieved from their posts on Friday after allowing 30 suspected illegal fishers to go scot-free.
POLICE seized four bottles containing explosives believed to be used for dynamite fishing in barangay Punta Engaño, Lapu-Lapu City.
Japan’s coastguard arrested the captain of a Chinese boat on suspicion of illegal fishing in its exclusive economic zone on Tuesday, officials said, amid a territorial row between the two countries.
THE Philippine Coast Guard’s Cebu office will be tapped to join the “Anti-Illegal Fishing Task Force” of the Mandaue City government.
Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used in illegal fishing.
Japan has detained a Chinese fishing boat and eight crew members for illegal fishing around Southwestern Japan.
Seven fishermen were arrested for alleged illegal fishing in the waters off Tuburan town, northern Cebu.
A vessel suspected of illegal driftnet fishing on the high seas has been transferred to China by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Davao Gulf, Southern Mindanao’s fishing ground, is dying due to destruction of fish sanctuaries by illegal fishers and pollution, a study made by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said.
Police yesterday confiscated at least 500 blasting caps and a kilo of cyanide found inside an abandoned pumpboat in sitio Mahayahay, barangay Pasil, Cebu City.
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.
The US Coast Guard and a mega-yacht owned by billionaire Paul Allen are searching the Pacific for an American pilot and two Republic of Palau police officers whose plane disappeared as they tried to track down a Chinese vessel that was allegedly fishing illegally.
THREE persons were arrested for dynamite fishing off the coast of barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City. Another man was arrested by police for selling explosives believed to be intended for illegal fishing. Jovencio Gestopa, Antonio Dela Cruz and Jenipher Laguna were arrested by members of the Task Force Kalikasan of the Lapu-Lapu police. Police seized their [...]
