A campaign to rid the waters of the world-famous tourists island of Boracay in Aklan of crown-of-thorns (COT) starfishes in on. Since last year, some 10,000 COTs have been manually gathered by local dive shop operators, ...

Oplan ERAP can significantly raise the living standards and provide more food access to the poor, not only in the Philippines but also in Southeast Asia. This was revealed by two international aquaculture scientists in a ...

Freshwater fishes can be "intercropped" with rice, increasing a farming family's income and at the same time, the protein and energy intake of its members. That's possible, reads a primer distributed by the Technology and ...

The Technology Promotion Center will be holding a Field Day today at the Seafdec (Southeast Asian Fisheries and Development Center) Brackishwater Station at Punta Pulao, Dumangas, Iloilo. This field day is a joint project ...

While President Erap and his several bus and car loads of entourage had breakfast at a seaside seafood restaurant last Sunday, I joined Sen. Serge Osmeña III who visited SEAFDEC, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...

Contrary to what is popularly known, women in fishing communities work more than men. A study done by researchers of the Tigbauan, Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC ...

Efforts to revive the once lucrative but long-gone capiz shell industry in Iloilo are on. Spearheading the move are local government units (LGUs) of Iloilo's first congressional district belonging to the Panay Gulf Development ...

A tilapia production project is now being implemented in the San Julian dam in Tapaz, Capiz, for the benefit of local residents, particularly rebel-returnees. The project is a collaborative undertaking of the Tapaz municipal ...

A case study on women's roles in a fishing community has found that women work more than men do. This finding is contrary to the common belief that men are the principal providers while women are mere assistants confined ...

An aquaculture project on raising mudcrab in tidal flats has been turned over to the Kalibo Aklan Save the Mangrove Association (KASAMA), a fisheries' organization at Barangay Buswang, Kalibo. The project had earlier been ...