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SEAFDEC helps RP expand crab program
The Philippines is continuously expanding its capacity to serve the growing mud crab market as the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) has enabled crablets distribution in Luzon, Panay, and Mindanao ...
- December 17, 2006
Iloilo
They will train under a two-year program called Sustainable Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Management (SACRM) now being implemented by the Tigbauan, Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture ...
- June 18, 2000
Coastal towns welcome aquaculture technologies
The livelihood programs of a number of coastal as well as landlocked towns in the Visayas are now being boosted by aquaculture technologies being transferred to their fishfarming sector. Such technologies include raising ...
- March 31, 2000
Karpa, the new dominant fish species at De Bay
Milkfish is no longer dominant fish species raised in Laguna de Bay. Bighead carp, locally known as "karpa," has edge out bangus as the preferred fish for stocking in fishpens in the 90,000-hectare freshwater lake, according ...
- December 19, 2002
Local shrimp industry seen to regain strength
Close to a thousand shrimp growers in the country met recently in Bacolod City and agreed to join hands in solving the problems besetting the shrimp industry. In a display of oneness, they hammered out seven urgent resolutions ...
- August 11, 2002
SEAFDEC AQD develops new seaweed strain
A new strain of seaweed has been developed. The improved strain of Eucheuma denticulatum, developed by the Tigbauan, Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD), grows ...
- May 25, 2003
SEAFDEC addresses lack of quality seaweed stock
The Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center based in Tigbauan, Iloilo is trying to address the scarcity of good quality seaweed seedstock by conducting the first month-long training on ...
- April 12, 2007
Want to know about Lapu-Lapu? Buy this book
A new book on the culture of grouper (lapu-lapu) is off the press. Funded by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the book, titled "Husbandry and Health Management of Grouper," was developed and published by the ...
- December 18, 2001
Bulacan fish hatchery multiplies common carp
Edmund and Yayan Mercado of Angat, Bulacan are entrepreneurs who are always looking for new possibilities. Sometime back, they became the first accredited producers of native hito fingerlings by the Southeast Asian Fisheries ...
- December 30, 2000
Kapis shell industry revival
Agriculture Undersecretary for Fisheries Cesar Drilon pledges the support of the Department of Agriculture in the campaign to revive the kapis shell industry in western Iloilo coastal towns. The program is being undertaken ...
- September 1, 2000