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Rare shark visit Iloilo town
A rare female megamouth shark got stranded on the beach of Brgy. Namocon here. The 504-centimeter long, one-ton shark was the third recorded in the Philippines and only the 24th specimen recorded from around the world, ...
- November 14, 2004
Yap orders thorough probe on Quedancor fund mess
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has ordered a thorough audit of the loan portfolio of the Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) due to the more than P500 million unexplained losses to the government. In a ...
- July 16, 2007
Seafdec holds mangrove education seminar-workshop
A seminar-workshop on mangrove education was held at the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department in Tigbauan, Iloilo last 2-4 May 2005 and attended by 23 teacher-educators from public and private schools in Panay Island. The ...
- June 14, 2005
Scientists turn to biotech to save ailing seaweed industry
The export-oriented seaweed industry may soon get relief from the anticipated breakthrough in biotechnology researches that would eliminate the menacing "ice-ice" disease spreading in seaweed farms nationwide. "By next ...
- July 5, 2006
SEAFDEC conducts training on seaweed biotech
To survive, seaweeds need to be tougher too, and the commercially important ones like Kappaphycus and Gracilaria can be made so with the help of research. In comes biotechnology. Not to mess with the genetic make-up of ...
- April 13, 2007
Probe up on destruction of mangroves plantation along Dungon Creek
The subcontractor of the P50 million dredging of Dungon Creek inconsiderately uprooted four species of mangroves and 38 different species of nipa along the riverbanks of Bolilao, in Mandurriao. In the initial report of ...
- September 14, 2009
ASEAN nations approve responsible fisheries code
Eleven ASEAN nations belonging to the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) have agreed to promote the implementation of the Code of Conduct for the Responsible Fisheries in fishing operations, aquaculture, ...
- April 25, 2005
Training to boost aqua-marine industry held in Capiz
The season-long training to help boost the province's aquamarine production was recently concluded. Provincial Agriculture chief Sylvia de la Cruz disclosed that the first phase of the collaborative fisheries development ...
- July 21, 2007
27th anniversary special supplement
Be trained and learn new aquaculture technologies! Our Training Program offers a year-round commodity-based production technologies and community-based fisheries management courses, either in-house, on-farm or on-line.
- April 21, 2008
Endangered turtle finds new home
Manang Leonor Daquila-Gelito was misty-eyed when "Uriel" was taken out of his one and a half square meter pond in Brgy. Manoc-Manoc, Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan. Uriel, a nine year old endangered hawksbill turtle, was to ...
- April 4, 2005