“We called for a meeting with all stakeholders to map out the seaborne patrol scheme ... to launch formally the closed season in the Visayan Sea. This means, fishing in the Visayan Sea, which ...

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – Four governors of the Visayas have asked President Aquino to declare the Visayan Sea as a protected area. The declaration will prohibit commercial fishing in the ...

“We called for a meeting with all stakeholders to map out the seaborne patrol scheme and harmonize ... and mackerels — which are found in the Visayan Sea, considered as one of the country’s major ...

Local government officials in central Philippines want the Visayan Sea to be designated as a fisheries management area (FMA) so it could be protected from illegal fishing and destructive fishing ...

ILOILO CITY—Four provinces have called on Congress and the President to declare the 10,000-square kilometer Visayan Sea a national maritime reserve to protect its rich but threatened marine ...

MANILA, Philippines — Commercial fishing vessels may now resume operations in Zamboanga peninsula and the Visayan Sea as the ...

Cebu, fairest and wealthiest island of the lovely Visayan Sea, lay helpless before the clutch of the Jap. For days the city of Cebu, second largest in the Philippines (pop. 142,912), had been all ...

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – Five governors committed to strengthen efforts in protecting and conserving the Visayan Sea, one of the country’s largest fishing ground. On Friday, September 28 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The government imposed a temporary ban on killing, catching and sale of herring and mackerel in the Visayan Sea in a bid to preserve and protect the marine species in one of ...

Construction of so-called “fish condos” has started in the Visayan Sea to help rehabilitate coral reefs there and support the government’s ban on sardine fishing. “Fish condos” are a simple and ...

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) lifted the three-month closed fishing season in Zamboanga Peninsula and ...