PILAR, Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte – The 13th Siargao International Game Fishing Tournament hosted by this municipality officially kicks off on Friday, April 21. More than 60 professional anglers from different countries have registered, among them friends of Vice President Sara Duterte from...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Fisherfolk here are up in arms about the requirement of having to submit to the City Agriculture Office a detailed journal on the kind of fish they caught, sold, and consumed among others. Councilor James Judith II, in a meeting led by the city council’s committee on...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has ordered Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos to talk to local chief executives of alternative fishing grounds to allow displaced fisherfolk in Oriental Mindoro to fish in their waters....
CEBU CITY – Chinese researchers have pledged to help the provincial government of Bohol to establish the Bohol Fishing Village. Officials from the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute and Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences arrived in Bohol for a field research in the coastal barangys of...
By Henrylito D. Tacio Fish, like rice, is a staple food of Filipinos. The average Filipino eats 98 grams of fish per day and 36 kilograms of fish per year, reports the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Fish is the cheapest source of animal protein compared to beef, pork and chicken in...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) disclosed Friday, Feb. 17, that one of its patrol ships encountered and challenged a Vietnamese-flagged fishing vessel off Recto (Reed) Bank as the PCG vowed to intensify its presence in in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) amid the intrusion of foreign elements....
ILOILO CITY – The municipality of Carles, Iloilo has organized the largest inter-agency task force (IATF) against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the country. THE inter-agency task force against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. (BFAR-6) “We laud local...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said on Sunday, Jan. 29, that it has constructed an access road leading to the Misamis Occidental Community Fish Landing Center which will enhance the earning capacity of the fisherfolks and other local workers. “Fishermen are now reaping the...
LUCENA CITY – Nearly P1 million worth of fishing gear, tools, illegally caught fishes, and 77 bottles of 'bigas-bigas' used in dynamite fishing were seized by authorities during a raid in seawater off Barangay Barra on Friday, Jan. 27, in this city. Joint elements of the Bureau of Fisheries and...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard rescued seven Chinese crew of a distressed fishing vessel in the sea of Suluan Island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, on Friday night, Jan. 27. The PCG Command Center received a distress call from FV Kai Da 899 due to damaged hull around 2:09 p.m. on Jan. 26....
ZURICH, Switzerland — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. clarified that the Philippines and China only have an agreement, not a partnership, that would allow Filipino fishermen to fish in the South China Sea. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) ...
Fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) aired its opposition against China’s “partnership proposal with local fishing villages,” saying that “nothing beneficial” for Filipino fishers could come out of this agreement. A fisherman in Cavite (MB...
