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DAVAO CITY – Pwersa ng Pilipinong Pandagat party-list Rep. Harold James Duterte filed House Bill No. 2065 on Thursday, July 17, proposing the creation of a Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR) to help improve the country’s fisheries sector. In its explanatory note, the proposed...

Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office)                 Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo has expressed his unwavering commitment to empowering local fishermen, which he says play a critical role in the country’s economy.  This, as Salo...

Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office)           Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo is not losing hope over the passage into law of the long-sought measure creating the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR).  In fact, he’s feeling the...

The Philippines still lacks science-based policy decisions in fisheries, which prompts a need to immediately create the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR). Limuel Aragones, director of the University of the Philippines (UP) Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology, said...

A group of agricultural stakeholders has resurrected the call for the creation of a separate Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR), saying that Filipinos’ high protein requirement is already enough reason to justify it. Asis Perez, convenor of Tugon Kabuhayan, said the need to...