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Iloilo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (786 words) |
 | Iloilo is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. |
| Its capital is Iloilo City and is located at the southeast portion of Panay Island, bordering Antique to the west and Capiz to the north. |
| Iloilo is subdivided into 42 municipalities and 2 cities. |
| DAILY STAR: Top Stories (705 words) |
| ILOILO CITY - The closed-door "heart-to-heart" dialog among commercial fishing boat operators and the Visayan Sea Squadron for the proposed five-year close season declaration over the Visayan Sea raised even more questions but attempted to reconcile conflicting views between the parties involved. |
| Another Iloilo fisher, Jun Borres, said that in the end it would "boil down to food security and employment" as he cited the case of SAL Fishing, once the largest fishing boat operator in Negros that was forced to lay off hundreds of employees after grounding its Group 1 and 2 fleets. |
| Teodosio, who owns a beach resort in Carles town, Iloilo province, said he was witness to the miserable state of the Visayan Sea during his snorkel diving when he saw corals being crushed by commercial fishing methods on top of illegal means like cyanide and blast-fishing. |
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