{"id":217180,"date":"2019-06-03T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=217180"},"modified":"2019-06-03T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:09:17","slug":"prrd-directs-agencies-to-mitigate-impact-of-taal-fish-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/03\/prrd-directs-agencies-to-mitigate-impact-of-taal-fish-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD directs agencies to mitigate impact of Taal fish kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_197910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197910\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/46794914_769103936757994_4124778757334499328_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-197910\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/46794914_769103936757994_4124778757334499328_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/46794914_769103936757994_4124778757334499328_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/46794914_769103936757994_4124778757334499328_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/46794914_769103936757994_4124778757334499328_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/46794914_769103936757994_4124778757334499328_n-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte has expressed \u201cconcern\u201d about the fish kill, which according to experts is caused by sulfur upswelling triggered by the strong Amihan that accompanies an extreme drop in temperature. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/a.397841807217544\/769103916757996\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte has directed concerned government agencies to mitigate the impact of fish kill in Taal Lake, where over 605 metric tons of tilapia have died, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte has expressed \u201cconcern\u201d about the fish kill, which according to experts is caused by sulfur upswelling triggered by the strong Amihan that accompanies an extreme drop in temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has directed the appropriate government offices to closely monitor the situation, particularly the water quality in Taal Lake,\u201d said Panelo in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also required the officials concerned to undertake measures to mitigate the impact of the natural phenomenon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said the President also ordered \u201cincreased vigilance\u201d over the prices and supplies and the freshness of fish sold in the market.<\/p>\n<p>He, meanwhile, cautioned the public against spreading false news regarding the fish kill, which may only cause undue alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) earlier described the fish kill in Taal as the worst crisis faced by the fish industry.<\/p>\n<p>Reports showed that the potential income loss caused by the fish kill is estimated at PHP42.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>DENR, however, assured that the fish kill should not affect supply and prices adding that the phenomenon is no cause for alarm in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte has directed concerned government agencies to mitigate the impact of fish kill in Taal Lake, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":197910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217181,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217180\/revisions\/217181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}