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                    [Title] => Artificial reefs eyed to boost Pangasinan town’s fish production
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The municipal agriculture office here will install artificial reefs made of concrete and iron bars in the waters off Barangay Buenlag to encourage fish to stay and spawn.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-31 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/nation/20150401/Artificial-Reef-1.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1283261 [Title] => Binmaley celebrates thriving fishing industry [Summary] =>

This town’s residents showed their renewed enthusiasm with their all-out support for Saturday’s staging of the annual Sigay Festival showcasing the success of the local fishing industry through the simultaneous grilling of seafood products in a grand street party.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9927/6kd8.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 656517 [Title] => Pangasinan town wants to be known as Seafood Capital of the North [Summary] =>

This first class coastal town, known as the Fish Bowl of Pangasinan, is aiming to become the Seafood Capital of the North.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 340822 [Title] => To Reclaim ‘Premier Bangus Producer’ Tag: Binmaley clearing rivers of illegal fishpens [Summary] => BINMALEY, Pangasinan — This municipality, known as the "fish bowl" of Pangasinan, wants to reclaim its old glory as the premier bangus-producing town of the province. As part of this effort, operators have started to voluntarily dismantle their illegal fishpens to enable the rivers to breathe again.

But the demolition of the illegal structures was the result of a year of unwavering pleas by the municipal government led by Mayor Simplicio Rosario to the fishpen operators to achieve the town’s goal of having not a single fishpen in local rivers.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279536 [Title] => Dagupan City, Binmaley lose P33 M in bangus to fishkills [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — The bangus (milkfish) industry in Pangasinan suffered another setback after an estimated P33 million worth of bangus was lost to fishkills that hit this city and neighboring Binmaley town recently.

In this city alone, fishpens in Barangays Lucao, Carael, Tococ and Calmay lost P18 million worth of bangus last Tuesday.

Hardest-hit was Barangay Lucao with 69.7 hectares of fishpens, or 13 percent of the total 536.7 hectares, affected, city agriculturist Emma Molina told The STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166538 [Title] => Intramuros being revitalized as major ASEAN tourist site [Summary] => In preparation for the "Visit Philippines 2003" worldwide promotion, Tourism Secretary Richard Gordon and the private sector kicked off last June 11 an ambitious beautification drive for the historic Walled City of Intramuros in Manila.

Intramuros, former bastion of Spanish colonial oppression that was walled off to keep Filipinos and Chinese outside, will now be cleaned up, recast and revitalized as the flourishing center of 21st century Philippine cultural renaissance, tourism revival and economic regeneration.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) ) )
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