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Sampaloc Lake clean-up mired in controversy
Some 7,000 city residents on Tuesday proclaimed the start of a multisectoral campaign to save Sampaloc Lake from extinction. Students, teachers, senior citizens, government officials and employees, and religious members ...
- March 3, 2000
Stuffed 'daing na bangus'
Inihaw na bangus or daing na bangus? Sometimes you wonder which one to choose from these two popular favorites. Here's a dish that combines the best of both recipes.
- September 11, 2008
Iloilo's prized fish and specialties
My host, the Robinsons Mall group, told me that we were going to break through. I remembered my last visit when I did research for the book, "Iloilo" (The Lopez Group Foundation Inc., 2007). The restaurant name seems odd ...
- May 14, 2009
2.5 % increase in world demand for shrimp, prawn
Philippine shrimps, including tiger prawns, pass world preference for quality. Shrimp culture, according to an expert, is a very good business, with worldwide demand showing consistent growth of 2.5 percent per year estimated ...
- April 27, 2000
Trivia overload
Other talented Filipino scientists work in fields that impact on the daily lives of citizens. Dr. Jurgenne Primavera is a world authority on that most-threatened wetland resource: mangroves. Dr. Florentino Solon specializes ...
- March 28, 2006
DA sets aside ₱15M for abalone sector
The Department of Agriculture has allocated P15 million for the further development of the local abalone industry, in a bid to take advantage of growing demand for the product abroad. Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap ...
- July 16, 2007
Disease threatens Sorsogon aquaculture industry
The deadly white spot syndrome virus has infected prawn farms here, threatening to wipe out Sorsogon's aquaculture industry. The WSSV was first reported in 1993 in China and Japan and the disease has spread to the other ...
- April 19, 2004
Vannamei shrimp breeding stock destroyed amid diseases onslaught
Dagupan City - The experimental culture of vannamei shrimps (Penaeus vannamei) in the country hit a snag when the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources decided to destroy its stock breeders which were found afflicted ...
- April 14, 2005
Technique to produce 'kapis' seed developed
A technique to produce "kapis" shell seed under controlled conditions for stock enhancement and mariculture has been developed. The headway was achieved by researcher Jocelyn Madrones Ladja of the Tigbauanm Iloilo-based ...
- May 7, 2003
Tales of Tubbataha
"Tales from Tubbataha" by Yasmin D. Arquiza and Alan T. White is the second edition of a survey of the "marine paradise" known as Tubbataha Reefs, "a pair of vast coral atolls sprawled in the middle of the Sulu Sea." To ...
- March 24, 2000