• It’s now officially the “closed season” for fishing in the Visayan Sea, a practice that aims to allow sardines, herrings, and mackerels within the area to reproduce. The closed season started Nov. 15 and will end on Feb. 15, 2023. • That follows the closed season to conserve Ludong in...
TACLOBAN CITY – Despite bearing the brunt of tropical cyclones, fishery production in mariculture parks continues to thrive in Eastern Visayas. A mariculture park in Eastern Visayas. (BFAR-8 FB) The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-8 reported that the trend in bangus or milkfish...
Fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday, Nov. 8, disclosed that several Filipino fishermen are still enduring the destruction that tropical cyclone Paeng left. Paeng, the country’s 16th tropical cyclone in 2022 and the fourth in the month of...
The city government of Parañaque was cited as the second top-performing local government unit in the Fisheries Compliance Audit conducted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR) in Metro Manila. The city was awarded...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Region 8 distributed fiberglass boats and propagules totaling P5 million on Thursday, Nov. 3, to seaweed farmers in Dawahon Island, Bato, Leyte, the seaweed capital of Eastern Visayas. They received 93 boats with engines and...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Twenty-five persons, including four minors, were hospitalized after eating windowpane oyster, also known as “katipay” or “tipay,” infected with red tide in Milagros, Masbate on Wednesday, Oct. 12. RED tide poisoning victims in Milagros, Masbate are treated at the...
AMBAGUIO, Nueva Vizcaya – The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) held a harvest field day here on Sept. 28 month to show the success of its tilapia and ulang polyculture project. The agency, through the Fisheries Production and...
CALBIGA, Samar – Sardines, also called "tamban," catch at the San Bernardino Strait in Northern Samar has been decreasing since 2013. Martha Cadano, the manager of the only sardine processor in Northern Samar, said the trend poses a challenge to the future of their business, Ken Matthew Sardines,...
ILOILO CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has declared the coastal waters of Gigantes Islands in Carles, Iloilo free from the red tide toxin. SCALLOPS are a major source of livelihood for residents of Gigantes Island, Carles, Iloilo. (Tara Yap) BFAR, in a Sept. 28...
A group of fisherfolk on Tuesday, Sept. 27, asked the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to mobilize its disaster funds to rehabilitate and provide relief to fishing communities affected by Super Typhoon Karding. Fishermen (Photo courtesy of Pixabay) In a statement, the Pambansang...
SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR)-Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) and the city government opened a P10-million multi-species freshwater hatchery at Gunot Seed Farm, Rizal, here on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The facility houses six concrete...
BONTOC, Mountain Province – A P2.3-million Municipal Multi-Species Fish Breeding Center was turned over by the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-Cordillera to the municipal government on Monday, Sept. 5. The facility in Sitio Lubo, Barangay Talubin is the first...
