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Scientists urge culture of endangered species
Iloilo City - Scientists from Southeast Asia and Japan are calling to intensified efforts to increase the stocks of threatened marine species to counter threats to food security in the region. They made the appeal on Friday ...
- July 18, 2005
Shrimp farmers in the Philippines go for the Pacific white shrimp
Thirty-eight (38) grow-out farms and seven (7) accredited hatcheries might not seem a lot, but their very existence signals the Philippines' entry into white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei aquaculture. Foreign and local ...
- June 25, 2008
The magnificent mangroves of panay
Unlike the bamboo or coconut, the mangrove has yet to take its place as a "tree of life " in Philippine lore, despite being ubiquitous, useful and magnificent. If names given to places indicate popularity, mangroves probably ...
- May 8, 2004
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 10, 2007
Our endangered coastal environment
A beautiful island in the Pacific. The pearl of the Orient Seas. The Philippines where the sun shines and you can see a scenic sunset practically every day. A beautiful coastline stretching over 18,000 kilometers, with ...
- June 14, 2005
Marine fish hatchery training course for the Philippines
The Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) is pleased to announce the first-in country marine fish hatchery training course for the Philippines. This training course is fully funded by the Australia Centre ...
- February 5, 2008
Zamboanga puts up 1st seaweed gene bank, nursery
Seaweed farmers in Western Mindanao will soon have a regular source of quality seedlings because of the establishment of a seaweed gene bank and nursery at the Rio Hondo campus of the Zamboanga State College of Marine ...
- April 1, 2007
SEAFDEC and ACIAR collaborate on mudcrab in Northern Samar
Mudcrab's profile as prized aquaculture commodity just got another boost. SEAFDEC/AQD together with the Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) joined forces to implement CATP or the Community ...
- July 19, 2007
Crab culture with a conscience
The rapid spread of aquaculture in recent decades has brought riches to some, ruin to many, exclusion to the poorest coastal dwellers, and environmental degradation. Scientists in the Philippines are adapting aquaculture ...
- May 17, 2005
Pushing the frontiers of aquaculture
The frontiers of the unknown specifically in aquaculture got a push with the installation of the new SEAFDEC/AQD (Aquaculture Department) Chief, Dr. Joebert Toledo, July 7. The AQD main station in Tigbaun, Iloilo was in a ...
- July 21, 2006