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DA-BFAR Invests P15M for Abalone Program
Secretary Arthur Yap of the Department of Agriculture (DA) launched recently a five-year, P15-million program spearheaded by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and DA-Bureau of Fisheries and Agriculture ...
- July 24, 2007
Seafdec develops early warning system vs pollution in mariculture parks
The Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is developing an early warning system to guard against the negative impacts of fish cages in mariculture parks. This is certainly ...
- September 29, 2008
SEAFDEC conducts training on seaweed biotech
The Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center based in Tigbauan, Iloilo recently conducted a month-long first-ever training on "Seaweed Tissue Culture and Sporulation" in the Philippines. ...
- April 9, 2007
Support fishing boat operators
The Department of Agriculture is asked to extend financial support to fishing boat operators who lost their livelihood due to the implementation of certain Fisheries Code provisions, particularly the ban on hulbot-hulbot. ...
- March 26, 2014
6th Para el Mar to award most outstanding MPAs in the Philippines
The Marine Protected Areas Support Network (MSN), in cooperation with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Management Program (CMEMP) “Agos ng Buhay” will once again hold ...
- October 16, 2017
Agriculture Department expands sardine fishing ban
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala announced Wednesday that the government is expanding its three-month sardine fishing ban. It will now include the Visayan Sea in addition to the Zamboanga waters. Alcala said during the ...
- October 19, 2012
Shrimp farmers in the Philippines go for the Pacific white shrimp
Thirty-eight (38) grow-out farms and seven (7) accredited hatcheries might not seem a lot, but their very existence signals the Philippines' entry into white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei aquaculture. Foreign and local ...
- June 25, 2008
51 fish landing centers for Region 6
Western Visayas received 51 community fish landing centers (CFLCs) from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). Of the 51 CFLCs, 17 will be established within the year and the remaining 34 will be operational ...
- October 28, 2015
Milkfish fry sufficiency program in full swing
Due to the diminishing availability of wild-caught fry and insufficiency of hatchery-bred fry from local hatcheries, SEAFDEC/AQD acquired recently, additional 78 milkfish broodstocks to support the government “Bangus Fry ...
- January 5, 2019
'FishR' to hasten help to fisherfolks
The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) eyes to register more or less 100,000 fisherfolks in Western Visayas under the National Program for Municipal Fisherfolk Registration (FishR). ...
- February 19, 2014