Bagonbanwa Island Sanctuary

Guiuan, Eastern Samar

Bagonbanwa Island and Marine Sanctuary is located in Cantahay, Guiuan, Eastern Samar and has a size of 28 hectares. It has been more than 20 years since the Mangroove Island was declared to be a protected area. The island's coral reef was literally devastated before the rehabilitation. Currently the coral reef has already recovered and has been a favorite spot for researchers/students and nature e ...

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Bagonbanwa Island and Marine Sanctuary News

  • Guiuan Eastern Samars Best Marine Life Producing Town

    Guiuan town, some 103 kilometers south of Eastern Samar's capital city of Borongan, has been considered as the best marine life producing municipality of Eastern Samar.

    This was according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ??" Guiuan Marine Fisheries Development Center (BFAR- GMFDC) and the Philippine Association of Crab Processors Incorporated (PACPI) of Manila who collaborated for a hatchery production trial recently.

    According to Ms. Nonita S. Cabacaba, OIC-Center Chief and Project Leader of Blue Swimming Crab at BFAR-GMFDC, the decline in annual catch of blue-swimming c ...

  • Crab Processors To Do Crab Reseeding In Guiuan Town

    To ensure that a steady and sustainable supply of crab meat is met, some crab processors based in Manila will do crab reseeding in Guiuan town on May 31, 2011.

    In a telephone interview, Mr. Faustino Galang of RGE Agridev Corporation said that the decline of annual catch of blue swimming crab is alarming .

    Blue swimming crab fisheries in the Philippines seem unable to cope with the rapid escalation in demand for its meat.

    Measures to improve this fishery has been set in motion by various cooperating groups.

    The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-Guiuan Marine Fisheries Develo ...