Browsing Malaya by Subject "aquaculture"

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    • 21 graduates from aquaculture seminar 

      (Malaya, March 20, 1986, on page 1)
      Closing ceremonies for the 5th Training Course for Senior Aquaculturists in Asia and the Pacific were held here Thursday with 21 participants from 10 countries receiving their diplomas and certificates under the joint ...

    • Abalone culture now ready for local farms 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, November 11, 2011, on page A9-A10)
      Generally, local abalone research and development lags behind other countries like Japan where pioneering R&D started in the 1960s, said Vincent C. Encena III of SEAFDEC's Technology Verification & Demonstration Division, ...

    • Aquaculture poisoning Taal Lake 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, February 4, 2010, on page A1-A6)
      The calm waters of Taal Lake are deceiving, and what lies below may be toxic. Fish cages have poisoned the sediments below while surface waters remain relatively safe for fisheries, according to a study made by the University ...

    • BFAR eyes lifting of ban on P. vannamei shrimp 

      Padua, Reinir (Malaya, October 14, 2005, on page B12)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has temporarily suspended the breeding of the Pacific White shrimp also known as Peneus vannamei broodstocks in Dagupan City due to the pond's low salinity. Dr. John ...

    • Extreme weather hits tilapia output 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, March 28, 2017, on page A2)
      “The major tilapia producing regions in the Philippines are now experiencing significant impacts from the progressing negative effects of climate change,” according to a report prepared by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...

    • Feeling shortage of crabs, prawns? Solon blames virus 

      Vigilia, Wendell (Malaya, April 16, 2014, on page B2)
      The vice chair of the House Committee on Agriculture to Address the spread of the "white spot syndrome virus" which has been threatening the country's fishpond industry, infecting crustaceans. "It has been reported that ...

    • Filipino savants develop new abalone hybrids 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, November 11, 2011, on page A9-A10)
      New hybrid technology for abalone farming has been developed by scientists at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Aquaculture Department. The new technology has produced two "presumptive" abalone ...

    • Fish output dropped in 2014 

      (Malaya, February 25, 2015, on page A4)
      Production output of the three most consumed fish varieties dropped in 2014, according to the latest report from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The effects of typhoon Glenda were attributed as the primary factors ...

    • Fishery school on air 

      (Malaya, December 3, 2010, on page A1-A11)
      Whenever education is mentioned, the four corners of a classroom is the first thing that comes to mind. After all, when you've spent 16 or so years learning in a classroom, the association is almost a knee-jerk reaction. ...

    • Fishfarm coops 

      (Malaya, December 18, 1985, on page 1)
      A memorandum of agreement was signed recently by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD), the Bureau of Cooperative and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

    • Fluctuating output brings seaweed prices down 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, November 29, 2017, on page A1-A4)
      A cycle of boon and bane is bringing down the price of dried seaweed. "The low buying price is caused by production fluctuation from late 2015 until early 2017," said Dr. Nicomedes Decomenden of the Bureau of Fisheries and ...

    • Geothermal plant to help raise healthier fish, shrimps 

      Mercurio, Richmond (Malaya, February 25, 2014, on page A3)
      Renewable energy company Emerging power, Inc. (EPI) plans to hit two birds with one stone with it soon to rise 40-Megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant in Mindoro. EPI said the completion of the Montelago geothermal power ...

    • Heavy Antibiotics, chemical abuse poison fish industry's health 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, March 16, 2012, on page A1-A10)
      The heavy use of chemicals and antibiotics in aquaculture may result in disease outbreaks and even the collapse of the industry, the head of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) warns. "Chemical and ...

    • Laguna de Bae and its knifefish 

      Aspillera, Dahli (Malaya, October 20, 2017, on page B5)
      Laguna de Bae is the largest fresh water lake of all of South East Asia, 12 leagues wide (66 kilometers) and very deep. Centuries past, fishing from this lake was productive, for subsistence fisherfolks, but not anymore ...

    • Landbank, BFAR tie up for mariculture parks 

      (Malaya, March 22, 2010, on page A7)
      The Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) recently signed a memorandum of agreement with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for the promotion of mariculture parks in the country. This tie up its congruent ...

    • Major shifts in fish feed formulations 

      Icamina, Paul M. (Malaya, May 25, 2012, on page A9)
      Fish Feed formulations are undergoing major shifts, away from fishmeal and toward the plant, protein concentrates. One reason is the pressure that fish meals and fish oil- for - example, from anchovies, sardines, sprats, ...

    • Marine Harvest dangles prospect of higher bid for Cermaq 

      Reuters (Malaya, June 4, 2013, on page A9)
      Marine Harvest, the world's biggest fish farmer, slightly raised its offer for rival Cermaq on Friday to 9.9 billion crowns ($1.7 billion), saying it would have bid more had it got the backing of Cermaq's board. Marine ...

    • Move over GG, tilapia's now poor man's fish 

      Sarga, Dwight (Malaya, February 12, 2010, on page A1-A3)
      Tilapia is the preferred food of most Filipinos than galunggong (mackerel scad) during hard times, indicating that if tilapia price rises, hunger incidence would also go up, the National Economic and Development Authority ...

    • Multiplying the milkfish 

      (Malaya, October 30, 1985, on page 1)
      Milkfish production can be increased by at least 2,000 kilos per hectare per year by using the modular pond system developed by Leganes Research Station of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department.

    • Mussels R&D is going high tech 

      (Malaya, April 4, 2018, on page A2)
      Not new but high tech just the same, geospatial technologies is now being applied for mussel culture management. Geospatial technologies in the Philippines include geographic mapping and analysis of the Earth surface and ...