Labella orders temporary closure of Suba Fish Port, Pasil Fish Market

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Starting at midnight on May 3, 2020, both the Suba Fish Port and the nearby Pasil Fish Market will already cease to operate. Mayor Edgardo Labella made his announcement to indefinitely suspend operations…

Resch, Rama back calls for temporary closure of Suba Fish Port

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least two members of the Cebu City Council are pushing for the temporary closure of the fish port in Barangay Suba to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to…

BFAR’s ‘Fish on Wheels’ program sends fish, marine products to Cebu LGUs

Doris C. Bongcac 04/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Visayas (BFAR-7) already started its “Fish on Wheels” program to make sure that the different markets in Cebu will continue to have enough supply…

BFAR-7 to ferry fishery products from Pasil to Mandaue City

Irene R. Sino Cruz 04/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Fishery products from the Pasil Landing Center will soon be available to buyers outside Cebu City, specifically in the northern part of Cebu. To address the declining fish trade at the Pasil Landing Center, the…

Pasil fish vendors complain of drop in sales with ECQ implementation

Doris C. Bongcac 03/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines -Vendors at the Pasil Fish Market in Cebu City are asking the government to allow the entry of buyers for their fish and other marine products. Quoting the outcome of their monitoring made early…

No increased tax on ambient fish vendors in Pasil Fish Market

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The ambient fish market vendors can keep their profit as the Cebu City government will no longer impose an increase of 20 percent tax for selling at the Pasil Fish Market. Jonil Matuguina,…

Bantay Dagat seized P50-K worth of ‘blasted fish’ in Pasil

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — They have fought for this cause for many years but members of the Cebu City Bantay Dagat say they will never get tired of pushing for the campaign against illegal fishing. This was…

DVMF confiscates 3.5 kilos of “pagi” from Pasil Market vendor

Doris C. Bongcac 07/06/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Veterinary Medicines and Fisheries (DVMF) in Cebu City confiscated 3.5 kilos of stingray locally known as “pagi” from a vendor at Phase II of the Pasil Fish Market at dawn…

Cebu City DVMF out to find persons behind stingrays recovered in Pasil

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/27/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – 50 kilograms of stingrays, or locally known as pagi, were recovered by inspectors from the Cebu City Department of Veterinary Medicine and Fisheries (DVMF) at the Pasil Fish Market on Wednesday afternoon, February…

Cebu inches towards full recovery three years after

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/14/2016

Stone after stone, brick by brick, the road to recovery from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake which jolted Central Philippines on October 15, 2013, was slow but sure. In its epicenter, Bohol, the energy released by the powerful earthquake,…

Blasted fish seized in Pasil

Marian Z. Codilla 07/27/2015

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…

Quake victims’ good deeds remembered

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/30/2014

AT 60, Carmen Zamora is already having difficulty vending fish at the Pasil Fish Market especially when her arthritis strikes. Since her husband died more than 10 years ago, Zamora has been depending on her adopted son…

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