{"id":18524,"date":"2017-07-01T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=18524"},"modified":"2022-08-08T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:37:06","slug":"4-visayan-fishermen-honored-as-ocean-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/07\/01\/4-visayan-fishermen-honored-as-ocean-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Visayan fishermen honored as Ocean Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dumaguete City, 4 fishermen from Ta\u00f1on Strait\u00a0were honored as Ocean Heroes. They were awarded for championing conservation, sustainable fisheries, coastal law enforcement\u00a0in the Visayas.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from them, recognition was also given to Ta\u00f1on Strait Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), who reached out for social, environmental\u00a0and economic gains for coastal communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Virgilio Aviso, Renato Buenavaje,\u00a0Jocelyn Moya-Herkdle,\u00a0and Mariano Sarcol all stood out from dozens of candidates for their commitment to protecting Ta\u00f1on Strait, a 161-kilometer strip apportioning the provinces of Cebu and Negros Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It was in 2016 when the Ocean Heroes Awards partnered with \u00a0Oceana Philippines, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to recognize brave community leaders regarding the marine ecosystems of the Ta\u00f1on Strait.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/997639\">Philippine News Agency<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgilio Aviso, Renato Buenavaje, Jocelyn Moya-Herkdle, and Mariano Sarcol are the chosen, 2017 Ocean Heroes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,5,2580],"tags":[3418],"class_list":["post-18524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story","category-news-and-current-events","category-other-news-source","tag-ocean-heroes"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/ocean-heroes-2017-062717.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66049,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions\/66049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}