The rampant illegal fishing activities in the seas off Quezon province are now taking their toll on marine species, an environmentalist group warned on Sunday.

Blast or dynamite fishing persists in northern Iloilo, according to Provincial Administrator Raul Banias. But he clarified that the culprits were mostly fisherfolk from other provinces.

Authorities apprehended eight fishermen for alleged dynamite fishing in the sea of Limay, Bataan on Tuesday, September 19.

Two brothers engaged in dynamite fishing were injured in an accidental explosion Wednesday in Polillo town in Quezon province.

At least four people died on Thursday, May 5, when the homemade dynamite for fishing they were making exploded at a residence in a coastal village in Claveria town in Masbate province, police said Friday.

Two fishermen were killed while two others were wounded after the improvised dynamite they were about to use to catch fish exploded in the waters off Calbayog City, Samar on Saturday night.

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Ten of 25 Fraser’s dolphins that were stranded in a coastal village in Del Gallego town, Camarines Sur province on Tuesday morning were found dead, possibly due to trauma caused by blast fishing, an official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said.

Three fishermen were killed when an unidentified suspect threw a suspected dynamite that exploded near the victims’ boat while fishing in the waters off Barangay Danao in Balud town, Masbate province on Monday evening.

There is growing interest in the relatively time-consuming, complex and expensive process of growing coral fragments in nurseries for transplant back into the wild.

Nothing beats dynamite fishing for sheer efficiency.

The flat, hot calm of an afternoon on the Philippine Sea is broken by an ear-splitting explosion. A plume of water rockets upwards. And fishermen, who had thrown a homemade explosive into the ocean just seconds before, rush to scoop up stunned and dying fish.