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New products, technologies ready for commercialization
Live feed substitutes that suit the nutritional needs of shrimp and fish larvae, known as Kappa-Carrageenan Microbound Diet, has been formulated by the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture ...
- August 19, 2007
There's goldmine in ulang - expert
A fishery expert here said there is an unexplored goldmine in the prawn species locally called ulang that growers must pay attention to as it will bring economic fortune to them when tapped. Dr. Westly Rosario, interim ...
- December 7, 2008
Stolen mameng return to Tubbataha home
Government and private groups started this week to return to their natural habitat rare fish poached by Chinese last Christmas. One hundred-twenty napoleon wrasses, locally called mameng, gently were slipped back into the ...
- March 23, 2007
Zamboanga stakes claim as RP’s top seaweed producer
In the face of declining seaweed harvests in the country’s traditional major seaweed production centers, the regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region IX has taken bold steps to ...
- March 23, 2008
Philippine science as world science: The case of milkfish reproduction
By the early 1980s, Clarissa Marte (also a UP faculty member) and Flor Lacanilao had both moved to the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Iloilo where they tried a ...
- January 10, 2008
Over-fished species go into evolutionary overdrive: study
Relentless commercial fishing can trigger rapid evolutionary changes when only smaller, younger fish are left behind, a study released Wednesday shows. Moreover, those changes among fish populations -- a desperate bid to ...
- April 18, 2008
2 Ilonggos succeed on bangus, biscocho
Tomas Hautea began exercising his entrepreneurial skills when he was still a student. At 18, Tomas also ventured into agriculture and leased fishponds, eventually purchasing the now family-owned fishpond in Dumangas, Iloilo ...
- September 7, 2008
Mangroves, fishponds, and the quest for sustainability
Aquaculture ranks as a phenomenal success story in global food production. In 1975, when I joined the SEAFDEC/AQD, aquaculture contributed 8% to the overall yield of the world's fish harvest; now it provides more than ...
- July 26, 2007
DA, SEAFDEC to implement tagging of fishes
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) plan to implement a number coding or tagging of up to 2,400 pieces of small pelagic fishes like galunggong, hasa-hasa and ...
- January 14, 2008
Shrimp production to double in 5 yrs-DA
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is optimistic that domestic shrimp production will double in the next five years and that the Philippines will regain its status as one of the world's top exporters of shrimp. Agriculture ...
- July 10, 2008