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Artificial insemination: Chinese carps lay eggs all year round
Chinese carp in an island research station here undergo artificial insemination and hormone injections to provide cheap protein for man. The fish do not complain. They lay eggs all year round when in other countries they ...
- August 25, 1985
Tilapia cage farming
The presence of abundant natural food in the water partly ensures a good growth of the fish even without supplemental feeding. During the fry-to-fingerling stage, Nile tilapia feed on plankton - tiny free-floating plants ...
- September 30, 1985
Extensive, not intensive fishfarming
How intensive is intensive? Fishpond operators may claim that they are engaged in intensive prawn culture if they have stocked their ponds with 10,000 to 50,000 fry per hectare. And based on Philippine industry standards, ...
- February 12, 1986
Center presents plan for sufficiency in fish
The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD) has presented a four-year plan which aims to achieve for the country self-sufficiency in fish by 1987. The plan also aims to ...
- July 29, 1985
Lack of funds hinders agricultural research
The country's agricultural research and extension program is being hampered by lack of funds, according to Agriculture Secretary Carlos Dominguez Jr. In a speech before participants to the seminar on aquaculture development ...
- September 17, 1987
Aquaculture programs offered
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources regional office here announced recently the offering of various aquaculture training programs by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center in Iloilo.
- January 8, 1985
Ready market for carp fingerlings
Carps may soon replace bangus as the favorite fare on the table of Filipino families. This was learned yesterday from Dr. Alfredo Santiago, Jr., chief of the Binangonan Research Station (BRS) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries ...
- August 25, 1985
Seafdec course scheduled
The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD) announced the holding of its first aquaculture course for scientists on Nov. 20-Dec. 19 this year at its main station in Tigbauan, ...
- November 15, 1985
Fishfarmers cite need for further research
Fishfarmers urged yesterday the aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development (Seafdec-AQD) to take into consideration specific fishfarming problems in the planning of its research program. Ramon ...
- February 5, 1986
Fishfarming ensures daily catch
Just 15 minutes drive from Makati is a fishing village lying along the shoreline of Laguna Lake. Here, almost everyone fishes to live and lives to fish. Lower Bicutan in Taguig, a community of some 800 families, holds a ...
- June 3, 1985