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.
Students in this city on Thursday returned a sea turtle and 10 tortoises to their natural habitat at the mouth of Pontok River here.
Pangasinan coastal residents may now be alerted in case a tsunami is generated by a strong earthquake in the West Philippine Sea.
It’s the time of the year when the waters of northern Luzon become the playground of marine creatures rarely seen in this part of the country.
The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) has ordered the company involved in magnetite or black sand extraction along the shorelines of Lingayen Gulf to pay a P50,000 fine for operating without an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
Fearing what it called a “black sand massacre” in the Lingayen Gulf and nearby coastal areas, a federation of fisherfolk organizations has asked lawmakers in the Ilocos to stop the onshore and offshore black sand mining in the region and in nearby Zambales.
The hauling of hundreds of tons of black sand from a village on the coast of Lingayen Gulf, which coincided with a provincial government project to build a golf course in the area, came under protest from villagers who demanded a stop to the sand extraction.
Wonder no more if the galunggong (scad) or the sardines you see on your table seem to be getting smaller every day. The country’s most affordable and popular fish is getting fewer and smaller as major marine grounds have become heavily exploited over the years, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said on [...]
