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World famous Iloilo kapis being revived
The long-gone window pane oyster industry in this province is now being revived through the collaboration of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (Seafdec-AQD) and the Panay Gulf Development ...
- November 15, 1999
Fishers' technology know-how needed before availing bank loan
Fishers should be armed with technology know-how before they can avail themselves of loans from the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP). This requirement was made clear by LBP when it started collaborating with the Aquaculture ...
- August 25, 1999
SEAFDEC trains fry gatherers
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) recently trained over 200 fry gatherers from the coastal towns of Iloilo's first congressional district at Seafdec in Tigbauan. Last Monday, July 26, was the last ...
- July 31, 1999
BFAR sires freshwater clams in Tapaz, Capiz
In its continuing efforts toward Food Security, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region 6 turned over 300 pieces of male and female freshwater clams to Mayor Romualdo Exmundo. Jr. of Tapaz, Capiz. BFAR RD Sonia ...
- September 30, 1999
'Don't cut mangroves, culture fish and crabs with them'
One needs not cut mangroves to give way to aquaculture. Fish and crabs can be cultured with mangroves. This was what Mr. Dan Baliao told the audience when he reported the development of pen and cage culture in the Philippines ...
- December 10, 1999
Hatchery mulled along Capitol's demo fish cages
Three years from now, the experimental fishcages at Tinagong Dagat, off Barangay Silagon, Ajuy town, will have a hatchery, the provincial government's answer to the chronic shortage of bangus fry in Iloilo. It will also ...
- April 7, 1999
'Intercrop' rice with pantat, farmers urged
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 ...
- December 3, 1999
[ Women ]
Women work longer hours. A case study conducted by researchers of the Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's aquaculture department (Seafdec/AQD) showed that women in a flashing village work longer ...
- November 1, 1999
'Hito' revival, dev't plan up
The provincial government and a Southeast Asian center here have agreed to work together in bringing back the native catfish (hito) to Iloilo's rivers and farms. A memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the implementation of a ...
- December 6, 1999
From predators to protectors: RP Energy moves to save endangered 'pawikans' in Zambales
It used to be that these delicate eggs hatched by gentle creatures from the sea ended up in fisherfolk’s household pots. They were a delicacy, and also a source of livelihood. Back in the 1990s, even earlier, marine turtle, ...
- February 23, 1999