Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's Aquaculture Development has opened its doors to businessmen looking at possible investments in aquaculture under an agree-build-operate-transfer scheme (Abot). According to ...

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 Filipino zoologist, whose ...

As always, Jurgenne Primavera though about her achievements. The retired Iloilo-based scientist has been featured by Time magazine in its Oct. 6 special issue on "Heroes of the Environment." She was among 30 activists, ...

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 ...

If Climate Change continues, the country's fisheries and aquaculture sector would soon to be sailing into rough seas, said the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center. Dr. Angel Alcala and Dr. Joebert Toledo painted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists from all over the country urged authorities to remove as soon as possible the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar I that was carrying bunker fuel for Petron. Dr. Jurgenne Primavera, Pew Fellow and Seafdec ...

Unlike the bamboo or coconut, the mangrove has yet to take its place as a "tree of life " in Philippine lore, despite being ubiquitous, useful and magnificent. If names given to places indicate popularity, mangroves probably ...

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 ...