Browsing Aquatic News Index by Scientific Name "Placuna placenta"
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Inland fish production hike planned
(,September 4, 2000 , on page )To support the program of the Estrada Administration, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) situated in Tigbauan, Iloilo, is gradually shifting its focus on trying to reach more communities and transfer ... -
Kapis shell industry - can the downfall be reversed?
(,February 19, 2002 , on page )Kapis shell once made a record of ranking in US$35 million and placed 5th among the major fishery export products of the Philippines. That was 1991. Today, the number of kapis are dwindling and worst, they have totally ... -
Kapis shell industry being revived
(,July 31, 2000 , on page )Kapis is known scientifically as Placuna placenta and locally as "lampirong." It is a bivalve mollusk with translucent shells and a very small body. The only source of this shell is wild stocks that used to abound in some ... -
Kapis shell revival off to a good start
(,August 29, 2002 , on page )A program to revive the country's kapis shell industry is now being pushed through by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department based in this town. SEAFDEC AQD head Rolando Platon initiated ... -
'Kapis' makes comeback in Iloilo waters
(,October 12, 2002 , on page )First, the good news: two valuable mollusks, the "kapis" (Placuna placenta) or windowpane oysters and "bay-ad" (Placuna sp.) have made a comeback near the shores of Iloilo province. And now the bad news: they may soon ... -
'Kapis' shells disappearing; gathering banned
(,September 29, 1999 , on page )The gathering of world-class kapis shells and other similar species of shells is now banned in Capiz. The ban came after Mayor Antonio del Rosario signed into law an ordinance passed by the city council to save the famous ... -
'Kapis' shells disappearing; gathering banned
(,September 16, 1999 , on page )The gathering of world-class kapis shells and other similar species of shells is now banned in Capiz. The ban came after Mayor Antonio del Rosario signed into law an ordinance passed by the city council to save the famous ... -
Kapiz shell industry being revived
(,July 7, 2002 , on page )The country's kapiz (window pane oyster) shell industry, which dwindled to near extinction in recent years owing to overexploitation of this mollusk, is well on its way to being revived. Spearheading the move is the ... -
"Lampirong will be back in our tables soon" - BFAR
(,June 3, 2002 , on page )Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Director Sonia Seville advised fishermen along shores where once there were abundant harvests of lampirong (Placuna placenta) or kapis shells to "wait a little bit ... -
SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department: "Reviving Kapis Fishery"
(,July 8, 2000 , on page )The Kapis shell (Placuna placenta), better known as lampirong to the Ilonggos is a bivalve mollusk with translucent shells and a very small body. Wild stocks of this shell used to abound in the coastal waters of Oton and ... -
SEAFDEC way of reaching out to the masses
(,August 31, 2000 , on page )Under the leadership of Dr. Rolando R. Platon, more towns in Western Visayas and other parts of the country are recipients of technologies centered on propagation of inland fish production. Tilapia culture in small freshwater ... -
Technique to produce 'kapis' seed developed
(,May 7, 2003 , on page )A technique to produce "kapis" shell seed under controlled conditions for stock enhancement and mariculture has been developed. The headway was achieved by researcher Jocelyn Madrones Ladja of the Tigbauanm Iloilo-based ...