The Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources announced that it will ban the use of Danish seine fishing nets beginning in mid-March. The nets, which used heavy weights to drag the bottom of the ocean floor have been identified as causing extensive damage to coral and other seabed ecosystems and organisms. According to the BFAR’s […]
Edwin Espejo of Asiancorrespondent.com has published today a really great photo essay called “A Day in the Life of Tuna” about the tuna market in General Santos City, Philippines, a city often known as the Philippines’ Tuna Capital. Espejo’s photos are great and the photo essay is well worth checking out to get a feel for this […]