Why Philippine fisheries keep losing 45 million kilos of fish a year

2026-03-16 - 02:54

(First of two parts) MANILA, Philippines — For generations, Filipino fishers measured abundance by instinct: the weight of a net, the distance they had to travel, the hours it took before a boat came home full. Long before scientists put numbers to it, many already knew something was wrong. Now, data is catching up. A