She helped turn many of the world’s prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life’s work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipina zoologist, whose ...

The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department will hold a training course on Mangrove Ecology, Taxonomy and Community Structure on April 15 to 20 at AQD's Tigbauan Main Station in Tigbauan, Iloilo ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) hopes to double the country's shrimp production in five years and thus regain its status as a top exporter of Peneaus vannamei of Pacific white shrimp. Agriculture Undersecretary Jesus ...

Tiger prawn raising marked a hefty growth in the second quarter to 3,164 metric tons (MT) from only 136.93 MT in the same period in 2007 which should also raise Philippine prawn export to Japan and other countries. The ...

The international scientific community recently recognized three UP professors' programs to protect mangroves forests. Professors' Rene Rollon and Maricar Samson's work on mangroves have been widely quoted by several ...

Applications are now open for participation in the first in-country marine fish hatchery training course for the Philippines to be held in Iloilo by the Network of Aquaculture Centers in the Asia Pacific and the Southeast ...

The Department of Agriculture and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center are aiming for a number coding of "tagging" of up to 2,400 pieces of small pelagic fishes like galunggong, hasa-hasa and tunsoy in Palawan ...

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed satisfaction over the rehabilitation efforts initiated for the recovery of the once oil-spill devastated province of Guimaras. President Arroyo made this assessment as she listened ...

A feed Efficiency determinant through bioenergetics can be a means of identifying feeds that are most suitable for aquaculture fishing as part of the government's aim of maximizing fish production. Southeast Asian Fisheries ...

An Agree-Build-Organize-Transfer (ABOT) Aquaculture Business Forum will be held on October 16-17 at the Philippine Social Science Center in Diliman, Quezon City. With this, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center ...