ZAMBOANGA CITY—Mayor Celso Lobregat extends full support to the livelihood drive for 30,000 workers in the sardine fishing sector displaced by a three-month moratorium. Read the rest of this entry »
Lobregat backs labor drive amid sardine fishing ban
December 13, 2011
Phl canned tuna production down 20% this year
October 20, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine canned tuna production has gone down by around 20 percent this year due to the high seas ban on tuna fishing. Read the rest of this entry »
Local tuna industry struggling due to declining catch
September 22, 2011
MANADO, Indonesia – What used to be an overwhelming $420-million worth in the early 2000s, the country’s tuna industry is now pegged at 30 percent lower than what it used to be when it was at its peak. Read the rest of this entry »
New tuna limits may cut fish production
August 22, 2011
THE country’s fish production may decline by 5 percent this year following the government’s imposition of conservation measures, an official said over the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Bluefin tuna catches to be reduced in Pacific—reports
December 12, 2010
TOKYO—Fishing nations have agreed to hold their catches of young bluefin tuna in the central and western Pacific in 2011 and 2012 below the 2002-04 annual averages, press reports said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuna resources in Mindanao dwindle
October 13, 2010
COTABATO City: The fisheries experts in the country disclosed on Tuesday that the supply of tuna in Mindanao particularly in the fishing grounds where fishermen from General Santos City used to capture has reached its critical level—which needs further study on how to make the supply sustainable. Regional Director Sani Maca-balang of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region XII based in General Santos City announced that there is an on-going biological study on stock assessment to address the problem of the supply of tuna. Read the rest of this entry »
Gov’t aid to displaced GenSan tuna workers reaches P3.6 M
August 31, 2010
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (PNA) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has so far released some P3.629 million worth of assistance to more than 900 tuna industry workers here who had lost their jobs due to the impact of the two-year fishing ban in the high seas off the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuna fishermen get breather
July 9, 2010
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — With the three-month fish aggregating device ban now in effect, the government has offered an alternative measure that would allow Filipino fishers to catch tuna in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a tuna industry official said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuna companies press gov’t to negotiate more pacts for additional fishing grounds
June 21, 2010
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The tuna industry is asking the national government to work out bilateral fishing access agreements with other tuna-rich countries since the closure of portions of the Pacific Ocean for six months now has slowed down their production. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuna catch declining in GenSan on El Niño
April 5, 2010
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: Tuna catch is declining in the southern Philippines as the warm climate continues to affect the ocean’s temperature. Read the rest of this entry »
