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Good news for crab farmers: Simple techniques double crablet production
Crab farmers will be happier, and the environment hopefully better, with recent improvements at the mangrove crab hatchery of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) in Tigbauan, ...
- April 5, 2020
Virtual forum underscores innovative tech, better practices on aquaculture
Having demonstrated how science-based approaches can mitigate the impacts of COVID-19, the webinar series highlighting the innovative technologies in improving aquaculture practices were set to help micro, small and medium ...
- August 18, 2020
Iloilo HS teachers embark on research methodology training sponsored by Japan
To enhance the capacity of high school science teachers in Iloilo, a training on research methodology and technical writing was organized with funding support from the Government of Japan. Twenty-two high school science ...
- February 15, 2020
Filipino aquaculture workers join ‘FishKwela’
Learning online isn’t just for students, it is also for the country’s aquaculture extension workers who listened to lectures and practical sessions on milkfish and mangrove crab culture via an online platform. Forty-eight ...
- October 17, 2020
SEAFDEC stocks up on tiger shrimp breeders
Over 300 breeders of tiger shrimp, locally called lukon or sugpo, were stocked in the new Shrimp Broodstock Rearing Facility of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) in ...
- November 14, 2022
'Spaghetti' fed to shrimp in bid to cut aquaculture cost
Humans are not the only ones who enjoy eating spaghetti – shrimp can, too. Researchers are using nutritious green “spaghetti algae” in fish and shrimp feeds as part of a broader move to bring down the cost of expensive ...
- November 21, 2020
Fisheries library goes digital, thousands of materials freely downloadable
Thousands of fish farmer-friendly materials, journal articles, and books written by scientists and researchers of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) are freely searchable and downloadable over the ...
- January 29, 2020
Towards sustainable lobster farming: Research making headway at SEAFDEC/AQD
Craving for lobster tails but on a tight budget? Try slipper lobster – it’s sweet, tasty, and all tail. The slipper lobster, locally known as pitik-pitik, may not be as famous as their cousins, the spiny lobsters or banagan, ...
- June 7, 2022
Sandfish: expensive, endangered, and ecologically essential
Sandfish, or Holothuria scabra, is one of the most threatened tropical sea cucumbers because of its high price, reaching up to $1,600 per kilogram (approximately P80,800) when processed and dried into trepang or beche-de-mer ...
- May 30, 2020
Production and delivery of milkfish, crab seeds unhampered despite lockdowns
Production and delivery of aquaculture seeds remain uninterrupted at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo despite the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed in Iloilo ...
- April 29, 2020