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The Philippine government may resort to importation anew to address a projected deficit in the supply of the country’s staple fishery products like tilapia and galunggong or round scad. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) already made a...

The threat of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Philippines is estimated at P5 trillion annually, but there is just no exact way to measure how much the country is really losing from this. Rollan Geronimo, IUU Fishing Specialist for the United States Agency for International...

Filipinos are advised to eat more locally produced high-value fisheries products like tuna to make up for the export revenues that Philippines has been losing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Keith Bacongco, MB file photo) On the part of the government, it should help local exporters identify the...