The species spends much of its time buried in the sediment on the ocean floor, lying in wait for its prey, including croakers, goatfishes and butterfishes. Though not normally aggressive ...

President Rodrigo Duterte will visit the Philippine Rise on May 15 to 16 to commemorate the renaming of the resource-rich continental shelf, Malacañang announced on Tuesday. “The President will ...

Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano has expressed concern over the Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) approval of China’s request to conduct a marine scientific research in Benham Rise. In a statement ...

Initial tests of the department revealed that small butterfishes were found to be suffering from a parasite-related disease. Earlier, in September 2015, hundreds of tonnes of fish died, resulting in ...

We used two high profile articles as cases to demonstrate that use of fishery landings data can lead to faulty interpretations about the condition of fishery ecosystems. One case uses the mean trophic ...