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SEAFDEC, BFAR hold training on fish tagging
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources held at training on tagging of small pelagic ...
- January 8, 2008
Pangasinan seeks new fame in 'bangus'
Fishery officials here are exerting efforts to regain Pangasinan's lost glory as the country's top bangus (milkfish) exporter. At the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources national research center here, 51 sabalo (mother ...
- March 24, 2000
Mariculture park awardee on urban gov't innovation
The Mariculture Park of the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) was named as one of the three awardees of the Urban Good Governance Innovation Facility in Asia. At the same time, The Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI) of ...
- January 24, 2003
There's goldmine in ulang - expert
A fishery expert here said there is an unexplored goldmine in the prawn species locally called ulang that growers must pay attention to as it will bring economic fortune to them when tapped. Dr. Westly Rosario, interim ...
- December 7, 2008
DA-BFAR Invests P15M for Abalone Program
Secretary Arthur Yap of the Department of Agriculture (DA) launched recently a five-year, P15-million program spearheaded by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and DA-Bureau of Fisheries and Agriculture ...
- July 24, 2007
BFAR launches Coral Garden
In order to conserve the dwindling coral reefs in the country, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources along with other national government agencies had launched the first Coral Garden here. According to Malcolm ...
- May 24, 2002
Gov't pressed to lift vannamei shrimp ban
The fisheries Aquaculture board (FAB) seeks the government’s immediate lifting of the ban on the commercial culture of the vannamei shrimps as initial experimentation showed that it can be bred locally free of disease. In ...
- January 19, 2006
DA eyes shrimp production of 1000,000 MT
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is eyeing to increase shrimp production to 1000,000 metric tons (MT) in five years via the large- scale production of Penaeus vannamei, or Pacific white shrimp. Agriculture Undersecretary ...
- July 11, 2008
The new DA structure
The Department of Agriculture has finally issued the highly controversial administrative order reorganizing the management structure of the department. According to the AO issued last May 15, a copy of which was furnished ...
- May 28, 2000
SEAFDEC developing high-yield seaweed
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is developing high-yielding and “ice-ice” disease-resistant seaweed strains in an aim to meet expanding industrial use and raise some $100 million in seaweed-carrageenan ...
- July 18, 2006