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Zamboanga stakes claim as RP’s top seaweed producer
In the face of declining seaweed harvests in the country’s traditional major seaweed production centers, the regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region IX has taken bold steps to ...
- March 23, 2008
Mangroves, fishponds, and the quest for sustainability
My earliest training was in zoology, and when I began studying the taxonomy of mangroves, I found the diversity of these habitats challenging. On a trip to the Mai Po, Hong Kong, mangroves in 1993, experts from Thailand ...
- August 2, 2007
Crisis becomes opportunity
The oil spill off Guimaras almost two years ago was tragic. For days it hogged the headlines on how bad it was for the environment but most of all, on how it deprived the fishermen of their livelihood. The livelihood project ...
- March 29, 2009
White shrimp farming gains momentum
When Leonila Arguerro decides to come home after working for years as a nurse in England, she is certain on where to primarily invest her earnings. This early, she is looking forward to putting her money in shrimp farming ...
- December 2, 2007
SEAFDEC/AQD spearheads 3-year program to expand aquaculture
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) is spearheading a three-year program to aggressively expand aquaculture development in the province of Antique. In a memorandum of ...
- July 3, 2006
Petron, Citi Philippines partner with Guimaras
Petron and Citi Philippines, together with the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD), partnered for the pilot phase of the Mariculture Livelihood Model Farm which was established ...
- April 26, 2009
Scientists turn to biotech to save ailing seaweed industry
The export-oriented seaweed industry may soon get relief from the anticipated breakthrough in biotechnology researches that would eliminate the menacing "ice-ice" disease spreading in seaweed farms nationwide. "By next ...
- July 5, 2006