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While fishing is a lucrative industry, fishers are vulnerable to forced labor and human trafficking due to lack of education or training, and inadequate language skills. Issues on fishers were discussed during the 9th Manila International Dialogue…
CEBU CITY— Typhoon Yolanda might have brought devastation to Bantayan Island, but it also paved the way for a group of fisher families to free themselves from dire straits. Fisher families in Sitio Binuswagan in Barangay Guiwanon,…
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Visayas (BFAR-7) cautioned fishermen to refrain from using Danish Seine, or even possessing its paraphernalia otherwise, stern penalties await them. This is after Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol…
FISHERMEN using small fishing boats in the Visayas are cautioned from going out to sea amid the prevailing weather systems in the country in the next three days. Al Quiblat, chief of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and…
Three men were arrested on Sunday for fishing without a license in Barangay Kabac, Bantayan, north of Cebu on Sunday morning. In a spot report submitted to the Cebu Provincial Police Office, Mario Mata, Isidro Giltendez and…
PROVINCIAL officials launched an outpost that would monitor illegal fishing activities in Bantayan town yesterday. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III led the groundbreaking of the outpost at Sitio Mambacayao, Barangay Lipayran, the farthest and last islet of…
WHEN Cris Aspaciño started fishing at 17 years old in Barangay Poblacion, Sta. Fe town in Bantayan Island, he and his father could easily get 30 kilos of fish daily from the Visayas seas. Now at 36…
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