{"id":7276,"date":"2018-02-16T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7276"},"modified":"2018-02-16T06:10:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:10:42","slug":"bfar-mulls-lifting-of-ban-on-sargassum-seaweed-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/bfar-mulls-lifting-of-ban-on-sargassum-seaweed-collection.html","title":{"rendered":"BFAR mulls lifting of ban on Sargassum seaweed collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is mulling the lifting of the ban on the gathering, selling, and export of the large brown seaweed Sargassum to provide additional income to poor fisherfolk and to allow studies on its pharmaceutical benefits.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6160 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sargassum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sargassum-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sargassum-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ban was because they serve as spawning grounds for fry species when they are attached to the seabed. BFAR is now reconsidering the sanction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1022942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is mulling the lifting of the ban on the gathering, selling, and export of the large brown seaweed Sargassum to provide additional income to poor fisherfolk and to allow studies on its pharmaceutical benefits. The ban was because they serve as spawning grounds for fry species when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-7276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaweed","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7276\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}