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                    [Title] => DA upbeat on continued growth of fisheries sector
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) remains confident that the fisheries sector will continue to grow this year and maintain its status as the world’s 8th largest fish-exporting country despite the spate of typhoons that battered Luzon in the last four months of 2009. 

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 432117 [Title] => DA discourages fishing in the Danajon Bank [Summary] =>

The Department of Agriculture plans to minimize fish harvest to help save the only documented double barrier reef in Southeast Asia —the Danajon Bank, which covers parts of Cebu.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 51380 [Title] => BFAR sets production target for 2008 [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720837 [AuthorName] => Rose Dela Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 11980 [Title] => DA to establish 195-ha mariculture park [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354501 [Title] => BFAR: Fish caught in Guimaras waters safe for humans [Summary] => Not to worry, all fish caught in the open waters in Guimaras Strait and in Panay Gulf are safe for human consumption, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said yesterday in a public advisory following the oil spill off Guimaras island.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321804 [Title] => BFAR acts to protect share of RP fish exporters in lucrative EU market [Summary] => The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is beefing up its fish inspection capability to ensure the country’s fish and fish products exporters do not get completely shut out of the restrictive European Union (EU) market.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298456 [Title] => RP-French expedition yields rare fauna from Bohol Sea [Summary] => A deep underwater expedition in central Philippines has yielded rare fauna of great scientific significance.

This so-called "Panglao 2005" deep-sea cruise in Bohol Sea was led by French and Filipino scientists and crew who obtained a saw-tooth shark, bivalve Archarax, large polychaete worm Aphrodite, and a good number of specimens from two relatively rare crab families. Retropmidae and Tymolidae including spider crabs, among many others.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279567 [Title] => 18 mariculture parks established so far [Summary] => Eighteen mariculture park and zones have been established in various parts of the country.

Ten are now fully operational, while the others are in various stages of development, according to Nelson Lopez, chief of the Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR).

Lopez said most commonly raised in fish cages in the mariculture parks are milkfish and grouper (lapu-lapu). Other marine species of commercial value are also being grown.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225534 [Title] => ULANG [Summary] => After three years of successfully propagating "ulang," a new inland fishery product that has a huge market in first class restaurants and five star hotels locally and in Thailand, in its hatchery in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) formally launched the product in a festival held last Monday at the Ninoy Aquino Parks in Quezon City that coincided with the World Food Day celebration.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 207498 [Title] => CDO Foodsphere goes into canning of bangus [Summary] => After four years of marketing canned corned beef, CDO Foodsphere Inc. is now canning fresh bangus, brand named Sea Quest.

Foodsphere vice president for sales and marketing Ed Reataza said the company is targeting the high end and health-conscious markets for its two variants that will be sold in leading supermarkets of the country for P34 a can.

CDO made a name in its processed meat line such as corned beef, hotdogs, hams and sausages, which it sold in various sizes at prices lower than its competitors.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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