ILOILO CITY — The campaign to sustain the Visayan Sea as a rich fishing ground should go beyond the annual fishing ban, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said. FISHING boats at the port of Concepcion, a town in northern Iloilo province. (Tara Yap) “The three-month fishing ban...
ILOILO CITY – The annual three-month fishing ban in the Visayan Sea, one of the country’s richest fishing grounds, is underway. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) officially launched the closed fishing season under Fisheries Administrative...
ILOILO CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-6 is set to implement a three-month fishing ban in the Visayan Sea under Fisheries Administrative Order No. 167-3 starting Wednesday, November 15. FISHING boats at the port of Concepcion, a town in northern Iloilo province....
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...
ILOILO CITY -- The three-month ban on catching three different species along the Visayan Sea has begun Tuesday, Nov. 15. Fishing boats at the port of Concepcion, a town in northern Iloilo province. (Tara Yap/File/Tara Yap) The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR-6) stressed that...
Visayan small fishermen are seeking economic aid of at least P10,000 a month as the Philippine government imposed the three-month closed fishing season within their area. In a statement, Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) said this will subsidize the small...
The three-month closed fishing season in the Visayan Sea could trigger “artificial shortage and fuel an inflation spike,” a fisherfolk group said Tuesday, Nov. 16. Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas In a statement, the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas...
Visayan fishermen fear that there will be an artificial fish shortage – which could trigger an increase in fish prices – amid the implementation of a state-imposed three-month fishing ban within their coastal areas. In a statement, Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas...
