A fisherfolk group called on the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to go after importers who violated the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) No. 195. Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), amid the debates on importation, urged BFAR to spare small fish...
Senator Grace Poe on Friday, December 2 asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) to lift its ban on the sale of imported salmon and pompano while it is studying whether it would lift it or not. Poe said she does not see any compelling safety reason to implement the DA Administrative Order 259...
There is something fishy in the issuance by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of a ban on the sale of pink salmon and pompano at wet markets starting December 4. The ban was apparently tacked on the Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO)195 which was issued in 1999 because Senate...
What's the deal with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources' (BFAR) crackdown on the sale of imported fish in the local market? Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga (PPAB) Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr., chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, wants to know....
Senator Imee Marcos today warned that the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) would have limited success in its campaign against fish smuggling if it overlooks online sellers. The BFAR had said it would start confiscating unauthorized fish imports on December 4 while a seasonal...
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) has rolled out a new campaign against the selling of imported fish unauthorized for wet markets, particularly those that are diverted frozen fish commodities that are supposed to be for canning, processing,...
ILOILO CITY – Red tide recurred in the waters of popular tourist destination Gigantes Islands in Carles town, Iloilo province, less than two months after the area was cleared of the toxin. WOMEN process scallops in Barangay Gabi, Gigantes Island, Carles, Iloilo. (Tara Yap) In a shellfish...
• 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...
