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Farm-based research on abalone-growing launched
The Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC - AQD) has forged ties with the private sector to study the economics of abalone rearing in an actual farm situation. The two private ...
- July 15, 2005
Shark tales in RP : The good, the bad
At first, the villagers of Barangay Namucon of Tigbauan town showed genuine concern for the giant fish when they saw it lying on their beach on Nov. 4, "heaving and suffering from what looked like a spear wound," according ...
- November 16, 2004
Establishment of seaweeds gene bank here proposed
A seaweed gene bank will be put up by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) to complement its biotechnology facility that will aid in boosting the country's production of seaweeds which earns $70 million ...
- April 29, 2007
DA mulls bigger fisheries budget
The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to allocate a hefty P1 billion budget for the fisheries subsector, particularly aquaculture, next year. As part of moves to develop aquaculture industry, two DA agencies have partnered ...
- December 27, 2009
6 agencies ink pact to boost dev't of seaweed industry
A Southeast Asian center based here and five government and private institutions and agencies have joined hands to help arrest the decline of the local seaweed industry. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) along this line ...
- September 14, 2007
RP marine scientist wins award
A Filipino scientist has won the world's most prestigious award in marine conservation, and won $150,000 for a project "to protect this essential habitat." Jurgenne Honculada Primavera, a senior scientist at the Southeast ...
- February 8, 2005
Capiznon wins in U.S. Science tilt
A novice researcher may only be as good as her/his adviser-mentor. If so, SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department should stand prouder when one of its research advises- Melvyn Carko Barroa- won the top spot in the 10th Intel ...
- June 5, 2007
SEAFDEC makes first seabass harvest in Antique town
The Southeast Sian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department based in Tigbauan-Iloilo saw its initial seabass harvest las February 2 at its project site in Hamtic, Antique after five months of culture. The SEAFDEC ...
- February 19, 2007
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