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No significant amount of oil recovered
No significant amount of oil has been found in the retrieval operations by Sonsub vessel Allied Shield from the sunken tanker Solar 1 off Guimaras Island. No oil was found in port tank No. 2 and starboard tank No. 2, the ...
- March 28, 2007
Saludan Festival Tigbauan
Although relatively small, Tigbauan is one of Iloilo's leading towns in fish production. Its municipal waters, abundant with fish are oftentimes producing more than what residents can consume. Three of from its ten coastal ...
- October 23, 2006
RP prawn gets market break
The Southeast Fisheries Corporation (SFC) is now giving Filipino prawn growers and sellers of marine products, a venue on which such raw materials can find their way to large markets throughout the world. Sung Ho Yu, SFC ...
- January 16, 2001
Seafdec, gov't agencies strengthen cooperation with Isda info caravan
The recent ISDA Fisheries Information Caravan that covered seven regions of the country has strengthened the working partnership of a government-hosted Southeastern Asian center here and two government fisheries agencies. ...
- December 31, 2000
Text inquiry service for fish prices available
Fish farmers can now get updates on the wholesale and retail prices of milkfish and tilapia for Metro Manila through their mobile phones. Such information can be made available by sending inquiries via text message to ...
- August 4, 2004
SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department: "Reviving Kapis Fishery"
The Kapis shell (Placuna placenta), better known as lampirong to the Ilonggos is a bivalve mollusk with translucent shells and a very small body. Wild stocks of this shell used to abound in the coastal waters of Oton and ...
- July 8, 2000
Iloilo town set to regain 'Alaska of RP' tag
Time was when the Iloilo town of Carles was dubbed the "Alaska of the Philippines". The northernmost town of Iloilo's fifth district situated 147 kilometers north of Iloilo City, Carles has the longest coastline in the ...
- September 8, 2000
Department for fisheries proposed at Congress
Six members of the House of Representatives are sponsoring a bill that will create a department that will be responsible for developing and securing the country's fishery and aquatic resources. Rogelio Amatorio, a fisherfolk ...
- December 20, 2007
Modern biotech lab in Iloilo nears completion
The construction of a modern biotechnology laboratory in this seaside town 24 kilometers west of Iloilo City is nearing completion. The Japanese government-funded, P431-million Laboratory for Advance Aquaculture Technologies ...
- December 28, 2002
Landbank unites w/ BFAR, Seafdec to boost aquaculture industry
The Land Bank of the Philippines together with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) recently established an agreement to boost aquaculture ...
- June 17, 2003