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Extraction of Solar 1 oil set: Foreign group hired for job; 2 M liters of bunker fuel still in tanker
After almost six months of waiting, Petron will soon start the extraction of remaining bunker fuel inside three cylinders of the vessel, Solar 1, which wrecked havoc on the environment when it split oil after it had sunk ...
- February 10, 2007
Councilor pushes for protection of Angel Wings
A councilor is pushing for the protection of Angel Wing shells from unregulated harvests. Councilor Soviet Dela Cruz, chairman of the committee on fisheries, said they are currently coordinating with the Southeast Asian ...
- February 17, 2009
Vannamei shrimp breeding stock destroyed amid diseases onslaught
Dagupan City - The experimental culture of vannamei shrimps (Penaeus vannamei) in the country hit a snag when the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources decided to destroy its stock breeders which were found afflicted ...
- April 14, 2005
SEAFDEC to raise specialty marine products
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) has embarked on a ₱5.4-million aquaculture program that aims to boost the country’s stock for specialty products such as abalone, grouper (Lapu Lapu) giant clam, and ...
- July 3, 2006
Scientist pushes high-value fish for mariculture
Tacloban City - "Research should not end in the writing of technical report, but in the actual implementation of the technology," said Dr. Fred Yap, chief of Research Division of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...
- July 29, 2005
Make way for 'Hipon 911' ambulance for white shrimps
Make way for “Hipon 911,” an ambulance basically for white shrimps called Penaeus vannamei. A first in the country, the Hipon 911 has a licensed veterinarian and four other personnel of the Department of Agriculture and ...
- September 4, 2008
Oil extraction
It's final. OnMarch 14, Petron Corp. will start extracting the remaining bunker fuel from MT Solar, almost seven months at the Iloilo- Guimaras Strait, causing an oil spill. Petron has tapped the Singapore-based Sonsub to ...
- February 20, 2007
Gov't ceases multi-million white shrimp research
A multi-million peso research on Vannamei, a foreign white shrimp, has been discontinued by the government-owned National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) in view of the controversy surrounding ...
- April 14, 2005
The dark side of prawn farming
She helped turn many of world's prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life's work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipino zoologist, whose ...
- April 11, 2008
Seabass project reap good harvest
Five months of culture. About 200 pieces of seabass, weighing a total 83 kilograms or nearly half-kilo each fish. Suddenly, a dream project becomes reality. Early this month, on February 2, the top managers of the Southeast ...
- February 13, 2007