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LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines –The Lapu-Lapu City government will deploy spotters in a bid to prevent illegal fishing activities in the coastal areas of the city. Earlier, Dr. Jeffrey Lim posted on his Facebook account photos of dead…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan would convene concerned government agencies to address the incidents of dynamite fishing on the seawater of Punta West. Chan said he wants to establish “robust monitoring and…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard sub-station in Tubigon, Bohol and the Philippine National Police arrested a senior citizen for the possession of materials used in making homemade dynamites. Lemuel Batuasa, a resident…
ABOUT 482 kilos of assorted dynamited fish were confiscated from a truck at a checkpoint in Liloan town at 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday. Lawyer Chad Estella, task force coordinator, said a team intercepted the truck and apprehended…
Stronger penalties and strict enforcement of the amended Fisheries Code are seen as the best solution to the problem on illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing. This was the consensus reached among 300 participants of the National Summit…
October came and was swiftly gone, and in two months’ time, a new year ushers in. Undeniably, 2015 has been a glorious time for those into the tough but eternally rewarding advocacy to protect our planet and…
Many of us might not have had the opportunity to meet Al Bernard Coyoca. His face now haunts all of us, a brutal victim of a scourge afflicting our oceans and our future – dynamite fishing. A…
THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) called on the provincial police to investigate last week’s death of a master diver, a suspected victim of dynamite fishing in Daanbantayan town. The board also passed a resolution strongly urging the…
Professional diving instructor Al Bernard Coyoca was found floating in the waters off the coast of Daanbantayan, north Cebu with bloodshot eyes, facial scratches, and broken limbs – just like a dynamited fish. The police blotter said…
Thirty-five boxes of assorted fish caught through dynamite fishing were seized in barangay Cotcot, Liloan yesterday. The fish were transported from barangay Mahawak, Medellin town in northern Cebu en route to Pasil market in Cebu City. The…
At least 400 kilos of fish believed to have been caught through dynamite fishing were confiscated in Pasil, Monday morning. Cebu City Bantay Dagat Commission and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) seized about 400 kilos…
Three fishermen were arrested by Lapu-Lapu City’s Task Force Kalikasan for using dynamite in fishing at the seawaters off Olango island yesterday morning. Renato Udto, 52, Ramilito Udto, 40, and Renero Siton, 39, all of barangay Pangan-an,…
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