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A local company's bayanihan helps push aquaculture industry forward
Meet Santeh, a company specializing in the production of fish feeds. Beginning in 1985 with shrimp feeds under its Tateh brand name, Santeh grew its company by developing other feeds for different fish species like tilapia, ...
- June 7, 2010
Don't kill the dolphins
In March of this year, the film that won Best Documentary at the Oscars was The Cove. You can download this film from the Net. My kids insisted that I see this film and I adamantly refused when they told me it was about ...
- August 29, 2010
Red tide alert up in Ilocos region
The regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) here has alerted local governments in Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, La Union and Pangasinan, comprising Region 1, to require market inspectors to ...
- June 13, 2010
Seaweeds to energize the countryside
The lowly seaweed can help save the Philippines from the looming power shortage while helping develop the coastal communities by attracting investments for sea farming. This is according to Sen. Edgardo J. Angara, principal ...
- January 24, 2010
Sharks lose fight at UN meeting
US-backed proposals to protect the heavily fished hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks were narrowly rejected Tuesday over concerns by Asian nations that regulating the booming trade in shark fins could hurt poor coastal ...
- March 25, 2010
Large drop in RP seaweed output seen
Philippine seaweed production is expected to drop by 28.6 percent to 50,000 metric tons from last year’s 70,000 MT due to the prevailing El Niño weather phenomenon, driving up further the price of seaweeds and exerting ...
- March 11, 2010
Recovery of agri sector expected in 2011
Recovery of the agriculture sector is expected in 2011 barring another extreme weather phenomenon, according to macroeconomic assumptions drawn up by the Development Budget Coordinating Committee. For this year, the DBCC ...
- May 16, 2010
Fishkill
Large "Imelda" fish floated belly in the Pasig,k while the surface of Bicol's Lake Buhi was nearly covered with dead tilapia. In southern Metro Manila, large milkfish or bangus are being sold for as low as P10 per kilo as ...
- July 17, 2010
Firm chosen for Laguna Lake rehab project hails guarantee
Baggerwerken Decloedt En Zoon (BDZ), the giant Belgian dredging company that bagged the P18.7-billion Laguna Lake rehabilitation project, welcomed yesterday the Begian embassy’s confirmation that the project enjoys a ...
- September 24, 2010
Huge potentials of siganid cited
In the recently concluded National Conference and Workshop on the Biology and Culture of Siganids at the Mindanao State University in Naawan, Misamis Oriental, the promising commercial potential of siganid or rabbit fish ...
- September 5, 2010