Small fishermen use wooden boats, nets, and hand lines instead of sonar, trawlers, and purse seines. They fish sustainably, taking only what is needed to rebuild marine populations. When huge ...

Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc have proposed an investigation into the "adverse impacts" on small-scale fisherfolk and the environment of allowing commercial fishing vessels within municipal waters ...

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing commercial fishing vessels in municipal waters has sparked fears among small fishermen ...

"This is at the heart of the difficult compromise between exploitation and protection." Officials enforce unprecedented ban ...

By Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos, Oceana vice president A further decline in fishery production in no time will result in food ...

A BUSINESS leader in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental has described the recent Supreme Court (SC) ruling that allows ...

ENVIRONMENT group Oceana warned of a further decline in fisheries output if commercial fishing vessels were allowed to operate in municipal waters. Preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics ...

ILOILO CITY — Sen. Imee Marcos has called for a review of the country's fisheries laws to better protect small-scale fishers, particularly in light of envi-ronmental changes and a recent Supreme Court ...

Mindanao social scientists presented their research about Northern Mindanao municipal fishers who described themselves as drowning in poverty because their small bancas/pumpboats were no match to the ...