The country’s fisheries sector is in crisis, with illegal commercial fishing and chronic overfishing driving key fish stocks ...

Explorer Heather Koldewey is helping people in the Philippines and beyond clean up ocean plastic, ... More than 705,000 tons (1.28 billion pounds) of fishing nets are lost yearly, ...

This is the dramatic moment a drowning man was saved by fishermen from a raging dam in the Philippines. Angler Rannie was ...

Malit and hundreds like him have been forced to venture farther into uncertain and often dangerous waters. Now, he is missing ...

A rare, endangered dolphin has been found dead after apparently becoming tangled in a fishing net and drowning. The female Irrawaddy dolphin was found in the water on Tuesday this week by a fisher ...

A local beach resort, known for its conservation efforts here, has sounded the alarm over the inaugural Subic Bay Shore ...

The Philippines said Wednesday it is banning the use of heavy-weighted fishing nets that drag along the ocean floor inflicting damage to seabed communities and coral reefs. The ban on "Danish seine" ...

According to data released by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in 2022, there are more than 370,000 municipal fishing boats and 5,000 commercial vessels registered in the Philippines.

Of the Philippines’ more than 2 million square km (772,000 square miles) of marine waters, 15 per cent are classified as municipal waters, while commercial fishing vessels are allowed to fish within ...

The program, which began in June 2012, established a community-based supply chain for collecting discarded fishing nets in rural coastal areas within the Philippines’ Danajon Bank, one of only ...

MANILA, Philippines — In a move which a security analyst deems to be permissible, the Philippine Navy reportedly dismantled and confiscated Chinese fishing nets installed within the vicinity of ...

Excavations from sites in Mindoro and Timor-Leste also uncovered the remains of deep ocean fish like tuna and sharks, along with fishing tools such as hooks, net weights, and gorges.