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Climate change threatens RP aquaculture
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 ...
- August 27, 2007
Fisheries center opens door to investors
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 ...
- January 4, 2008
Agri officials hail building of fisheries lab in Iloilo town
Agriculture and fishery officials welcomed the establishment of a biotechnology laboratory here as "uplifting news" in aqua0culture industry amid the global gloom spawned by th crisis in the Middle East. The facility, built ...
- March 12, 2003
RP mangrove scientist among Time's heroes of environment
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, ...
- October 12, 2008
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
Prawn farms destroying nation's fish nurseries
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 ...
- April 11, 2008
Filipino wins int'l award for work with mangroves
Filipino research scientist Jurgenne Honculada Primavera has won a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, the worlds most prestigious award in marine conservation for her work in preserving and restoring mangroves in the ...
- March 9, 2005