Fishing

by Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), 21 Oct 2020 A powerful lobby is wangling a government permit to import tilapia from China at a time of local supply glut. Billion-peso profits are to be raked in at the expense of Filipino fish raisers.

By Raffy Ayeng, 18 Dec 2019 TO strengthen collaborative efforts on combating forced labor and exploitation of fish workers, the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) and child-focused development and humanitarian organization Plan International Philippines signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on it on December 11.

by Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sep 22, 2017 LUCENA CITY — Illegal fishers are back in the bays of Tayabas and Lamon in Quezon province, this time with minors reportedly working on fishing boats, an official of an environmental group said.

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), June 25, 2016, http://www.philstar.com/nation/2016/06/25/1596301/fisherfolk-get-fixed-salary-benefits MANILA, Philippines – Fisherfolk employed by commercial fishing companies will get a fixed salary and other benefits, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced yesterday.

Women make up nearly half of international fisheries workers, but they are often paid far less than their male counterparts – and sometimes not at all – when toiling in the $500 billion industry, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.

From the Department of Foreign Affairs The Philippines notes with satisfaction the European Union’s (EU) lifting of the warning or “yellow card” in recognition of the significant progress made by the country in addressing Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF). Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert F. del Rosario welcomed the EU’s decision as it will…

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, March 17 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now crafting a joint department order that would set rules and regulations on employment and working conditions of fishers employed in vessels engaged in commercial fishing.

MAGSINGAL, Ilocos Sur – A 64year-old fisherman died Saturday when the homemade dynamite he was carrying exploded near the shorelines of Barangay Puro in Magsingal, Ilocos Sur.

The fishing sector is an important source of employment, income and food production for many countries. But there are serious incidents of abuse in some fisheries and fishing vessels. By Beate Andrees, head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has lifted the three-month ban on sardine fishing in a conservation area in Mindanao. BFAR director Asis Perez said the fishing grounds of East Sulu Sea, Basilan Strait and Sibuguey Bay were now open to commercial fishermen effective March 2, three months after a sardine fishing ban was…

THE Philippines is full of ironies. Imagine an archipelago with more than 7,100 islands and a coastline longer than 36,000 kilometers not having enough fish for people to eat. But that just might be our future. Earlier this week, Agriculture Sec. Proceso Alcala warned that it was “inevitable” for the Philippines to import fish in…

THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Wednesday admitted that it was compelled to open the domestic market to imported fish because of the continued decline of domestic catch.

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CLARK FREEPORT, Philippines – The Philippines ranked fourth in Asia in fishery product exports in an international fishery trade.

Zamboanga City—Tens of placard-bearing workers in the fishing industry here staged a protest on Sunday against a ban ordered by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on sardine fishing this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) have forged a partnership to help farmers and fishermen grow their business. The two agencies will help farmers and fishermen in business licensing, trade facilitation and export market exposure.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) distributed P67.57 million in cash assistance for farmers and fisherfolk in 10 regions to help them cope with the rising prices of commodities and fuel during the lean months.

Philippine fish invasion MANILA, Philippines -When the law was passed in 1998 by Philippine Congress, then the administration of former military general President Fidel V. RamosFidel V. Ramos promised the fisherfolk that social justice would soon reign in troubled waters.

MANILA, Philippines – When lawyer Malcolm I. Sarmiento retired recently as national director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), the fishing industry used his send-off party as an occasion to celebrate the various milestones in fisheries conservation and development that marked his 12-year stewardship of the country’s premier fishery regulatory agency.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (PNA) – As a prime exporter of processed fish products, the fishing and canning industry in the Zamboanga Peninsula has adopted its own voluntary code of good practices in pursuit of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE’s) reform agenda on industry self-governance.

Philippines (PNA) – As a prime exporter of processed fish products, the fishing and canning industry in the Zamboanga Peninsula has adopted its own voluntary code of good practices in pursuit of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE’s) reform agenda on industry self-governance.

THE PHILIPPINES should be wary of proposals exempting poor countries from cutting their fishery subsidies at the ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) talks if it wants to secure global stocks, international advocacy group Oceana said last week.

PARIS — A study by marine scientists has given powerful backing to campaigners who say the future of many of the world’s fisheries lies in co-management by government, local people and fishermen.

Overfishing in Southeast Asian seas has left garoupas and sea bass in dire straits, searching for mates on denuded seabeds, according to experts alarmed by declining catches. Marine scientists and fishermen say that popular fish species—especially the large and valuable ones—have been caught indiscriminately, causing numbers to plunge dramatically.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and Vietnam on Monday signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) on bilateral cooperation on fisheries in Hanoi, the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a news release Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Some 50 fisherfolk leaders and environmental activists yesterday urged President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III to indefinitely suspend the implementation of the Fisheries Code of 1998. Republic Act No. 8550 for the law’s failure to protect the livelihood and marine environment all over the country.

SEVERAL tuna fisheries have collapsed and others are in steep decline as overfishing continues and world tuna stocks fall.

TORIL, Davao City: Transshipment is a relatively new phenomenon and Davao is the only place in the country where a fishery product may pass through without paying taxes on its way to auction destinations in Japan, Canada and the United States.

DAVAO CITY: Unload the chilled tuna, pack in carton boxes, put in refrigerated container vans, whisk to the international airport and from there to Manila, then fly them to Tokyo in time for the multimillion-dollar auction markets in Japan early the next morning.