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    • Red tide alert still up, weakening signs show 

      Caspe, Mel (Manila Standard, December 27, 2015, on page A7)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has been seeing signs of weakening red tide that plagued several bays in Eastern Visayas since September. BFAR regional director Juan D. Albaladejo said typhoon-induced rains ...

    • Scientists turn to biotech to save ailing seaweed industry 

      Felix, Rocel (The Philippine Star, July 5, 2006, on page B-7)
      The export-oriented seaweed industry may soon get relief from the anticipated breakthrough in biotechnology researches that would eliminate the menacing "ice-ice" disease spreading in seaweed farms nationwide. "By next ...

    • Seafdec boosts pen culture of mucrabs in mangroves 

      Seafdec News Center (Daily Informer, November 12, 1999, on page B1-B4)
      The production of mudcrab has traditionally been undertaken only in bamboo or net-fenced brackishwater ponds. Now, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (Seafdec/AQD) has been promoting ...

    • SEAFDEC to shrimp farmers: Don't stock during cold months 

      (Panay News, February 9, 2018, on page 10)
      Shrimp farmers are advised not to stock shrimps during cold months (November-February). Mr. Vic Estilo, AQD shrimp pond culture expert said culture may be done during the warmer months from April to October, since shrimp ...

    • Seaweed farming face dilemma with ice-ice disease 

      Tumampos, Stephanie (BusinessMirror, June 9, 2019, on page A6)
      Carrageenan, a food enhancer which has been used in processing food, such as in thickening sauces, emulsifying and preserving, and even used in cosmetics, is sourced from a vegetable that grows in the sea—the seaweed. The ...

    • Severe heat prompts advanced harvest of Dadupan 'bangus' 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 30, 2010, on page A18)
      Growers here have been forced to harvest their bangus stocks after some of these floated on Monday due to extreme heat. But city agriculturist Emma Molina said her office has not monitored any case of fish kill since last ...

    • Shellfish ban up in Eastern Visayas bays due to red tide 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, November 15, 2018, on page B-7)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) imposed a shellfish ban in two bays in Eastern Visayas due to the recurrence of red tide.Just last week, BFAR found the red tide algal bloom in Cancabato Bay in Leyte ...

    • Sugar central faces probe for fish kill panay news 

      Celino, Felipe (Panay News, May 15, 2011, on page 5-10)
      Capiz officials have been urged to inspect the facilities of Capiz Sugar Central (CSC) relative to the recent fish kill in Brgy. Dulangan Pilar , Capiz. Residents blamed the sugar central for the fish kill. But according ...

    • Viability of producing functional food 

      Yap, Julio P. Jr. (Panay News, July 27, 2018, on page 10)
      The production or processing of functional food is becoming one of the fast growing segments of the country’s food industry. Functional food contains both essential nutrients and health promoting non-nutrients. However, ...

    • Weather transition causes fish kill in Dagupan 

      Rinoza, Jojo (Manila Bulletin, May 24, 2017, on page 7)
      An aquaculture specialist has warned “bangus” growers in the city to monitor the water in their fishponds, noting how some have already suffered “gataw” – an event when the milkfish surfaces to gasp for air – or, worse, a ...