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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
Raising ulang in fish cages
It is now feasible to raise ulang (giant freshwater prawn) in fish cages in lakes. The technology was developed and continues to be refined under a collaborative project on the development of a genetically improved strain ...
- March 18, 2007
Fishfarmers join hands to save shrimp industry
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 passed seven resolutions which ...
- September 22, 2002
Lanao
A government center in Lala, Lanao del Norte had been chosen as demonstration site for environment-friendly shrimp culture technologies. This is stipulated in a memorandum of agreement signed between the Department of ...
- July 30, 2000
Seafdec successfully spawns white shrimp
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) successfully spawned wild caught white shrimp or putian (Penaeus indicus). Now, shrimp farmers in the Philippines can have another alternative species to culture ...
- November 28, 2001
Aquaculture targets food sufficiency
The success of researches in aquaculture technology should be gauged by its usefulness in boosting production to achieve food sufficiency. Seafdec Aquaculture Department (AQD) is a pioneer in aquaculture researches. Bureau ...
- July 10, 2001
Probe on banned 'suahe' shrimp sought
Party-list lawmakers have asked the House of Representatives to conduct a probe into the proliferation in the local market of banned Pacific or western white shrimps, popularly known as "suahe." Warning that the unabated ...
- June 20, 2005
SEAFDEC and BFAR to step up promotion of shrimp farming
"The best prawn quality so far...we should step up the promotion of this technology," says SEAFDEC AQD Chief Rolando Platon seeing the good result of the prawn harvest of SEAFDEC-BFAR (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...
- March 21, 2001
Market matching at TESDA food festival this weekend
One of the strategies arrived at during the recent shrimp congress in Bacolod City is for growers to produce antibiotic-free prawns, using environment-friendly culture systems. It was observed that in 1993 to 1996, the ...
- July 18, 2002
SEAFDEC researches win awards
The winning streak of researchers from the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) continues. AQD Senior Scientists, Dr. Jurgenne Primavera won the Best Published Paper in aquaculture ...
- July 31, 2000