Vet office wants to join drive in enforcing shark meat ban

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/20/2016

More hands are needed on deck to enforce the Cebu City ban on shark meat, the head of City Hall’s Department of Veterinary Medicine and Fisheries (DVMF) said yesterday. DVMF head Dr. Alice Utlang said she wrote…

Pasil vendors insist they don’t sell shark meat

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/16/2016

VENDORS in Pasil fish market were adamant that they don’t sell shark meat even before Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña signed the “Shark and Ray Protection Order” last Tuesday. Melba, a 35-year-old fish vendor in Pasil who…

Cebu City joins province-wide ban on sharks, rays

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/15/2016

History was made on Tuesday when the entire Cebu became the first and only island in the Philippines to ban the catching, selling, possession and trading of all shark species and its derivatives after Cebu City sealed…

Capitol raises alarm on shark meat sale

Melissa Q. Cabahug 07/06/2015

The Cebu Provincial Anti-Illegal Fishing Task Force (CPAIFTF) called on the Naga City government to end the sale of shark meat in one of the restaurants in the area. Lawyer Czareem Joseph Estella, head of the Provincial…

Shark meat factory owner insists they didn’t violate local law

Norman V. Mendoza 06/30/2014

The owner of a shark meat processing factory located in sitio Suba Masulog in barangay Suba-basbas, Lapu-Lapu City said he didn’t violate any law by receiving imported gummy shark meat  from Australia. “We asked the Bureau of…

BFAR: Shark meat not from threatened species

Carine M. Asutilla, Norman V. Mendoza 06/21/2014

Lapu-Lapu’s Task Force Kalikasan is not happy with the incompetence of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources – 7 to determine if the shark meat they seized are from protected shark species. While admitting that the…

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