Catch handling
New Marco MarVac fish pump to speed up sardine landings
Marco is supplying a new MarVac PC-180 fish pump to
Quentin Bates
24/02/2021
ANNONCER
Country Specific News
Land: Phillipines
Administration
EDF to partner with Philippine Bureau of Fisheries to implement science-based management
In a dramatic step forward for Asia-Pacific and global ocean conservation, the Philippines has begun implementing sustainable fishing reforms with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as a partner providing critical support on science and policy.
FiskerForum
07/10/2017
Politics
Unions call on government to enforce the rights of fishing vessel workers
The Citra Mina Workers Union, with the support of their national centre SENTRO and the IUF, is stepping up its push for the government of the Philippines to implement a regulation enforcing the rights of workers on fishing vessels which it has promulgated but never implemented.
FiskerForum
04/09/2017
Politics
Philippines continue to delay minimum standards order
Representatives of the Citra Mina Workers Union and their national centre SENTRO have called on the seafood industry employers’ association SFFAII to take stock of the potential consequences of growing international concern over the industry’s ongoing failure to respect international standards.
FiskerForum
13/05/2017
Politics
IUF puts pressure on Citra Mina
The IUF union representing food industry workers around the world is calling on Philippines company Citra Mina to facilitate the repatriation of the body skipper of one of its fishing vessels who died while in custody in Indonesia.
FiskerForum
05/01/2017
Politics
Health coverage secured for dismissed Citra Mina workers
Union leaders and members dismissed by Philippines tuna company more than two years ago. They continue to press for their rights and have now been have been able to get healthcare cover for themselves and their families, replacing the cover that was lost with their jobs.
FiskerForum
09/04/2016
Fish Species
Tuna workers union protests
Workers across the tuna industry are escalating the campaign to make sustainable jobs and respect for human rights an integral part of a sustainable fisheries industry.
FiskerForum
18/03/2016
Sardine fishing ban lifted
The government of Philippines has lifted three month ban on sardine fishing in a conservation area in Mindanao.
FiskerForum
05/03/2012
Aquino asks local govt. to go tough on illegal fishers
President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III of Philippines asked the local government to go tough on illegal fishers.
FiskerForum
28/11/2011
Inland Fishing seeks fish conservation
To meet the declining stocks of commercial fish production fish conservation of Inland Fishing is needed.
FiskerForum
30/10/2011