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Jun 15, 2018 · BOHOL, Philippines — Nothing beats dynamite fishing for sheer efficiency. A fisherman in this scattering of islands in the central Philippines balanced on a narrow outrigger boat and launched a...
Jul 8, 2016 · In Cebu, an island in the central Philippines, a community at the mouth of the Bojo River was plagued by a triad of destructive fishing methods: dynamite, cyanide and other poisons, and muro-ami, a technique where concrete blocks or rocks are dropped on heads of coral to flush out fish.
Jul 26, 2021 · The practice of dynamite fishing is illegal, but it has remained a lingering problem in the Philippines for some time now. Explosions from dynamite fishing destroy coral reefs and kill fish and...
Nov 1, 2021 · Dynamite fishing is practiced not only in the Philippines but also in other parts of Southeast Asia, as well as in the Aegean Sea and coastal Africa. But the Philippines get special mention as it has been documented by Ernst Jünger in his book, Storm of Steel.
In the Philippines, dynamite fishing decimates entire ocean food chains and the corals where the fish nest and grow. Blast fishing kills the entire food chain, including plankton, fish both large and small, and the juveniles that do not grow old enough to spawn.
Sep 21, 2022 · Results revealed that most DFPs, such as dynamite fishing, cyanide fishing, and muro-ami fishing, were prevalent and remained a lingering problem in the Philippines from the 1930s up to...
Aug 23, 2021 · There are four common types of illegal fishing in the Philippines, according to BFAR. They are dynamite fishing, cyanide fishing, the use of modified Danish seine or known locally as hulbot-hulbot, liba-liba and, in Bantayan, as zipper, and the intrusion of commercial vessels within municipal waters.
