EDGEDAVAO
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VOL.5 ISSUE 30 • APRIL 17, 2012
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Dumalag fish cages closed Special Report
By Jade C. Zaldivar
n Water sampling bares E. coli
HE P300 million fish cultivation industry in Punta Dumalag, this city, will have to stop operations, according to Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
This after the mayor learned that said coastal area is ‘unfit for fish cultivation.’ In the process of declaring Punta
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Dumalag as a Mariculture Park, several studies were made by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Davao region,through sampling of the water in fish cages and the milkfish produced thereat.
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WASHED. Children play with a dead milkfish (bangus) which washed ashore in Punta Dumalag where some 200 fish cages have been ordered closed by Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on March 29 following Department of Science and Technology’s water analysis results showing presence of coliform and other pathogens. [JADE C. ZALDIVAR]
Husbands rise vs wives’ abuses T By Lorie A. Cascaro
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HE Mr. GAD, a federation formed by 15 barangays in Davao City, including Barangays Toril Poblacion, Lizada, Sasa, Panacan, Buhangin, Tibungco, and San Antonio
of Agdao, will promote the protection of husbands from abuses committed by their wives.
Guesting at the Kapehan sa Dabaw, SM City Davao yesterday, Agdao Brgy. Captain Rene Estorpe, president of the
federation, said in his barangay, there were two reported cases of abuses against husbands. “Kung sumahon nato ang rekord sa tibuok Pilipinas, daghan na pud diay
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