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    BFAR wants to revive native fish species via breeding technology
    (Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc., 2022-09-15)
    The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said it is revitalizing indigenous freshwater species to increase the output of the fisheries subsector through aquaculture. BFAR, an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture, noted that freshwater species are an essential component of inland waters and contribute significantly to the environment’s biodiversity. “These fishes, however, are among the inland water resources that have experienced a fast decline due to several factors, such as overfishing, declining water quality, siltation, and illegal fishing,” BFAR said in a statement.
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    Karding aftermath: Veggie, fish, rice prices to go up 20%
    Campos, Othel; Araja, Rio (Philippine Manila Standard Publishing, Inc., 2022-09-30)
    Prices for vegetables, fish and even rice could shoot up by as much as 20 percent as a result of the damage wrought by super typhoon Karding, the Department of Agriculture (DA) warned Thursday. Agriculture Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban said in an interview that the country’s rice granary, Central Luzon, sustained severe damage during the typhoon, resulting in the loss of 20 percent of the standing crop.
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    Fish importation in Quarter 4 of 2021 OK'd
    (Panay News, Inc., 2021-08-31)
    The Department of Agriculture (DA) approved a Certificate of Necessity to Import (CNI) for 60,000 metric tons (MT) of fish in the fourth quarter of the year. Due to the closed fishing season in several coastal areas of the country, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) recommended this in coordination with the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority
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    Villar, Legarda question DA's 60,000-ton fish import
    Casayuran, Mario (Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, 2022-01-25)
    Senator Cynthia A. Villar and House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda on Monday, Jan. 24 questioned the decision of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to import 60,000 metric tons of fish. During her hybrid hearing on issues surrounding the fish industry as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform committee, Villar said the DA should have suspended the closed fishing season instead of deciding to import fish for the first quarter of 2022.
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    Rice and fish
    Chanco, Boo (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2022-11-16)
    There was this story of a school girl whose baon every school day was a cup of rice sprinkled with patis or fish sauce. That was all her parents could afford, the story on social media said. The basic Filipino diet is rice and fish. Fish and fish products provide the bulk of protein for more than half of all Filipinos when they eat. Galunggong or scad was the poor man’s fish when I was growing up. But today, the poor can no longer afford galunggong. It is now imported.