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    • Brackishwater aquaculture areas await new investors 

      Technology Dispatch (Agribusiness Weekly, February 10, 1989, on page 11)
      The growing interest among Taiwanese businessmen in developing the Philippines' brackiswater areas for prawn production augurs well for local producers of marine products for export. At present, Taiwan leads all other ...
    • Cagayan eyes exporting eels 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, August 29, 2019, on page B5)
      An increase in eel production in Cagayan Valley (Region 2) could allow the region to export more of the fish to the world market and increase supply in the domestic market. According to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...
    • Center presents plan for sufficiency in fish 

      Antonio, Tony (BulletinToday, July 29, 1985, on page 1)
      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 ...
    • China-Phl trade unstirred by WPS tension, Bol says 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, September 21, 2023, on page A1-A6)
      Trade relations between China and the Philippines remain strong and unaffected despite the ongoing tension in the West Philippine Sea, a ranking official of the Board of Investments, an attached agency of the Department ...
    • Iloilo moves to boost blue swimming crab population 

      Sornito, Ime (Panay News, May 15, 2024, on page 2-15)
      In a bid to revive the blue swimming crab population in the province and sustain local livelihoods, the Provincial Agriculture Office recently released crablets in Sitio Banban, Barangay Tambaliza, Concepcion town. Led by ...
    • Japan seafood exporters get emergency relief 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Manila Times, September 6, 2023, on page B4)
      Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Monday a 20.7-billion yen ($141-million) emergency fund to help exporters hit by China's ban on Japanese seafood over the release of treated radioactive wastewater from ...
    • Lahar devastated ponds eyed for massive tilapia culture 

      (Manila Chronicle, July 30, 1996, on page 13)
      Reconciling population growth and food productivity has stumped government for ages. Projections from the National Census and Statistics Office, projects 75.2 million Filipinos by the year 2000. Each consumer has the ...
    • Panay prawn industry losing ₱100-M monthly 

      Pagharion, Gerry T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 13, 1992, on page 24)
      The prawn industry in Capiz continues to suffer heavy losses despite government efforts to save what used to be a multimillion dollar business. Lawyer Antonio B. Ortiz, manager of Aquafresh Seafoods Inc., which processes ...
    • PH, SKorea in talks to boost fishery exports 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, June 2, 2022, on page B6)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) and its South Korean counterpart have forged a partnership for the increased exports of Filipino seafood and fisheries products while ensuring food safety for the Korean consumers. In a ...
    • Phl to boost fishery exports to South Korea 

      Talavera, Catherine (The Philippine Star, May 31, 2022, on page B7)
      The Philippines is expected to raise its exports of seafood and fisheries products to South Korea. In a statement, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Agriculture Secretary William Dar recently met with Korea Ministry ...
    • Post-harvest techniques 

      (BulletinToday, December 11, 1985, on page 22)
      In the Asia-Pacific region, the leading milkfish producers are the Philippines and Indonesia. The Philippines showed particularly impressive gains in production over Indonesia. The nation has exported frozen milkfish since ...
    • Prawn export deformities traced to lack of Vitamin C 

      Abadilla, Emmie (Philippine Daily Globe, March 28, 1992, on page 9)
      The outbreak of ugly spottings, or gaviota, which are threatening prawn exports may be traced to lack of Vitamin C, in addition to irritation from the seaweeds that the prawns eat, as well as other stress factors caused ...
    • Prawn exports to Japan negligible 

      (BulletinToday, July 22, 1985, on page 24)
      How does the Philippines compare with other countries in the export markets for frozen shrimps and prawns? A market research conducted by the aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center ...
    • Raising prawns for export 

      Velasco, Marietta (Malaya, October 7, 1985, on page 1)
      Why are big business names like Soriano, Ortigas, Roxas, Villareal engaged in intensive prawn culture? It's a big business, that's why. There is a big demand for sugpo or lucon, not only in the local market but in ...
    • Reduced tariffs seen to boost prawn industry 

      Silva, Chell (The Manila Chronicle, August 21, 1990, on page 13)
      A reduction in tariffs and duties on prawn farm inputs coupled with a phase out of subsidies given by the Board of Investments (BOI) to prawn exporters will improve the competitiveness of Philippine prawns in the world ...
    • RP now exporting purified oysters: Part II 

      (BulletinToday, July 13, 1983, on page 1-10)
      To encourage a ready market for Philippine oysters and mussel, SEAFDEC aquaculture department is developing techniques for purifying oysters and mussels so that they can meet international health standards. Oysters and ...
    • RP shrimps exports hurt by US embargo 

      (The Manila Chronicle, August 11, 1996, on page 11)
      The embargo on shrimps imports into the United States since May 1 of this year has been hurting Philippine shrimps exports, it was reported by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC). The US embargo on ...
    • RP's prawn industry 

      Roman, Isidro M. (BulletinToday, March 5, 1983, on page 1-11)
      Marine prawns and shrimps, including the delicious sugpo or giant tiger prawn, constitute one of the major dollar earners of the Philippines. Exports have steadily increased from 1,700 tons valued at ₱50 million in 1975 ...
    • SEAFDEC-AQD chief warns against importing shrimp, prawn species 

      Valbuena, Rene T. (BusinessWorld, July 3, 1989, on page 11)
      The entry of any imported shrimp or prawn species, even from places other than Taiwan, should not be allowed by the Government, a top official of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department ...
    • SEAFDEC-TLRC seminar on prawn culture, grow out & pond management 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 27, 1988, on page 1)
      The Philippines is located on a strategic site of the South Pacific which supplies one-third of the world market for shrimps. However, the country remains one of the 10 lower shrimp exporters.