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                    [Title] => Shellfish ban enforced in Leyte's Carigara Bay
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The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has imposed a shellfish ban in Leyte’s Carigara Bay after finding red tide microorganisms there.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 481272 [Title] => BFAR urges fishermen to go into fish farming [Summary] =>

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) director Malcolm Sarmiento Jr. is urging fishermen to venture into fish farming owing to the increasingly unpredictable and debilitating weather disturbances in the country.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 407304 [Title] => Isda sa Romblon puwede nang kainin [Summary] => Maaari nang kaining muli ang mga lamang-dagat tulad ng isda mula sa karagatan ng Romblon.

Ito ay makaraang opis­yal ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 401482 [Title] => DA to carry out measures to boost fisheries sector [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is carrying out several measures to put the fisheries sub-sector back on a high-growth.

These ... [DatePublished] => 2008-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 331852 [Title] => Tiger prawns successfully raised in marine pens in Bohol — BFAR [Summary] => CALAPE, Bohol — A technology breakthrough has been achieved in this sleepy and rustic municipality with the bountiful harvest of tiger prawns or Penaeus monodon raised experimentally by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in marine fishpens.

Known more by the locals as sugpo, P. monodon is usually cultured in brackishwater fishponds along coastal areas, particularly in Bacolod, Capiz and Iloilo in the Visayas and Bulacan, Pampanga and Quezon in Luzon.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311797 [Title] => ‘P. vannamei’ culture seen to revive RP shrimp industry [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — The culture of the white shrimp species called Penaeus vannamei would double shrimp production in the country, the director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said.

"This is what we need to revive the almost dead shrimp industry," BFAR head Malcolm Sarmiento Jr. told local newsmen during a seminar-workshop on the culture of P. vannamei and the formal launching and accreditation program for its growers at the BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) here last Saturday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250473 [Title] => NASTF probes 3 shrimp exporters [Summary] => Three companies believed to be involved in the smuggling of frozen shrimp from China into the European Union using the Philippines as a transshipment point, are now the focus of an investigation by the National Anti-Smuggling Task Force, a NASTF official said.

The EU is supposed to have shipped back to the country a total of 60 container vans of the frozen shrimp, nine of which are set for burning and destruction on orders of NASTF chairman Angelo Reyes.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216186 [Title] => Landbank extends credit to farmers, fisherfolk under SEAFDEC program [Summary] => The Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) will provide credit assistance to qualified farmers and fisherfolk and small and medium industries (SME) that will adopt aquaculture technologies generated by two fisheries entities.

LBP made the commitment in a memorandum of agreement entered into with the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo, and the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR).
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097618 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 101499 [Title] => DA, BFAR try to save vanishing [Summary] =>

DAGUPAN CITY -- The country's most expensive, very rare, and very elusive fish, known as Ludong (Cestraus plicatilis), may still be saved from imminent extinction with the launching last Tuesday of "Oplan: Sagip Ludong" program at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) office in Bonuan, Binloc here.

Agriculture Secretary Edgardo Angara led officials in signing a memorandum of agreement with the governors of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Apayao, Quirino, Kalinga, Abra, Pangasinan and Ilocos Sur for the conservation of ludong.

Westl [DatePublished] => 2000-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1194156 [AuthorName] => by Eva De Leon [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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