The rapid spread of aquaculture in recent decades has brought riches to some, ruin to many, exclusion to the poorest coastal dwellers, and environmental degradation. Scientists in the Philippines are adapting aquaculture ...

Inspite of the political turmoil in the country, Speaker Jose de Venecia vowed to help the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Aquaculture Department (AQD) to acquire some P10 million worth of facilities ...

Tigbauan, Iloilo - Scientists from Canada, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand and fisheries officers from Southeast Asian countries will gather in Iloilo City from July 13-15, 2005 to formulate a plan of action to restock ...

Fishworld is a dream come true of SEAFDEC scientist Dr. Doris Bagarinao, an environmental activist nonpareil. A museum-aquarium-ecopark, it was built “to promote informal education needed for responsible aquaculture and ...

A seminar-workshop on mangrove education was held at the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department in Tigbauan, Iloilo last 2-4 May 2005 and attended by 23 teacher-educators from public and private schools in Panay Island. The ...

A Filipino scientist has won the world's most prestigious award in marine conservation, and won $150,000 for a project "to protect this essential habitat." Jurgenne Honculada Primavera, a senior scientist at the Southeast ...

Among the famous historical towns in Iloilo is Tigbauan, a 52-barangay municipality 22.5 kilometers away from Iloilo City. Bounded in the northwest by the municipality of San Miguel, in the east by the town of Oton and ...

This southern Philippines city takes center stage today as the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) holds a regional consultation on fisheries concerns at the Iloilo Business Hotel. World-renowned scientists ...

Party-list lawmakers have asked the House of Representatives to conduct a probe into the proliferation in the local market of banned Pacific or western white shrimps, popularly known as "suahe." Warning that the unabated ...

Scientists and writers at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) launched several publications during the anniversary program held July 8, at the Aquaculture Department, with Agriculture Undersecretary ...