Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez has given illegal fish pen operators here until Aug. 31 to dismantle their structures from the city’s rivers or the city government will demolish them.
Even without fish pens, the bangus (milkfish) industry in this bustling city will continue to thrive. City Agriculturist Emma Molina made this assurance on Thursday to allay fears that the milkfish industry here will collapse once the city government starts removing illegally built fish pens from its rivers.
For gobbling up two grilled “bangus” (milkfish) in a little over a minute, Edgar Grado erased last year’s bangus-eating contest record during the Bangus Rodeo, an event of the Bangus Festival here.
If there is someone who deserves to be called “Bangus King” here, it is Eduardo Maramba, who belongs to four generations of milkfish growers.
The Pasay City Regional Trial Court on Thursday denied the request of former Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos, Sr. to go to Taiwan to buy bangus (milkfish) fry.
Thousands of bangus (milkfish) went belly up here on Thursday after a fish kill hit two areas in this coastal city.
Thousands of bangus (milkfish) went belly up here on Thursday after a fishkill hit two areas in this coastal city.
LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato—If Dagupan City in Pangasinan prides itself for its Bonoan bangus (milkfish), Lake Sebu has the tilapia to beam about. “Lake Sebu is the place when it comes to fresh and sweet-tasting tilapia,” said Love Basilio, 22, a flight attendant and native of Koronadal City. Just how vibrant the local tilapia industry [...]
Just days after authorities declared that fish from Taal Lake were already safe to eat following a massive fishkill that spawned an industry nightmare, hundreds of dead “bangus” (milkfish) were seen floating anew off three lakeside villages in Batangas on Monday, police said.
Read Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala’s lips: Contrary to public fears, there is no danger in eating fish in the aftermath of the fishkill late last month in Taal Lake in Batangas. “It’s safe to eat fish,” Alcala said at a roundtable discussion on Thursday night at the Inquirer. “It has been some weeks since the [...]
Environment Secretary Ramon Paje has ordered the filing of criminal charges against operators of illegal fish pens in Taal Lake, site of a massive fishkill that has crippled local livelihood and the country’s milkfish industry over the past two weeks. Paje on Wednesday said he had directed the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau to file [...]
THEY’RE stubborn. These are the words of Nestor Domenden, regional director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), when asked why fishkills have been a recurring nightmare in Bolinao and Anda towns in western Pangasinan in the last 10 years. “They (milkfish growers) know where their fishing structures should be built, but they [...]
The militant fishers alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas, and its chapters in Batangas are asking the provincial government for the immediate release of its P90 million calamity fund to give immediate economic relief to the small fisherfolk affected by the massive fishkill that hit the province.
