Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "aquaculture"

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    • 14 Senate bills about aquaculture near finality 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, May 29, 2017, on page A3)
      With the Senate set to approve on third reading 14 bills creating multi-species marine hatcheries, Senator Cynthia Villar said aquaculture will now get a needed boost in the provinces. After hurdling the second reading ...

    • An appetite for sustainability 

      Pañares, Joyce Babe (Manila Standard, March 13, 2017, on page D2)
      A local firm based in Antique is poised to export Philippine slipper oysters to China within the first semester of the year. It will be a pioneering feat for Crystal Bay Oyster Co., and proof that striving to keep our seas ...

    • Aqua assets under threat 

      (Manila Standard, October 3, 2015, on page A4)
      Rising water temperatures as a result of climate change could threaten the country's aquaculture industry and fish production in general, a scientist based in Iloilo province said on Friday. "There is a threat to aquaculture ...

    • Aquafeed project shows promise for farmers’ income 

      (Manila Standard, June 7, 2021, on page A7)
      To help lower the price of fish amidst volatile food prices across the country, an international aquaculture research center is coming up with a new fish feed formulation that is cost-efficient and eco-friendly. Using ...

    • Ashfall destroys P578m in coffee, other cash crops, livestocks and infra 

      Campos, Othel V.; Araja, Rio N.; Zurbano, Joel E.; Casas, Willie (Manila Standard, January 15, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      The damage from Taal Volcano’s eruption has reached P577.59 million in crops and livestock, with coffee growers hardest hit at P74 million in damages, the Department of Agriculture estimated Tuesday. The Bureau of Fisheries ...

    • 'Bangus, like GG, in short supply too' 

      Mauricio, Orlan L. (Manila Standard, September 3, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      Fishermen, fish traders, fishpen and fishpond operators in Laguna Lake are asking President Rodrigo Duterte to step in to address the shortage of locally produced bangus or milkfish and the resulting high prices. “Although ...

    • BFAR, Itbayat Island open first tilapia hatchery 

      (Manila Standard, April 11, 2024, on page B3)
      Batanes fish farmers will soon have their own local source of tilapia fingerlings as the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and the local government inaugurated on April 4, 2024 ...

    • BFAR-10: Just enough fish for region's needs 

      Baconguis, Lance (Manila Standard, September 20, 2018, on page B4)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources here in Northern Mindanao said there is just enough fish supply in the region, most of which is highly dependent on the supply from Zamboanga peninsula. BFAR regional Director ...

    • Born in the backyard 

      (Manila Standard, December 20, 2000, on page 24)
      Seahorses can now be bred in captivity, thanks to research headway by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's aquaculture department in Tigbauan, Iloilo. Began in 1996, the SEAFDEC-AQD ornamental seahorse breeding ...

    • Can fish farming in territorial waters feed a hungry world? 

      Hood, Marlowe (Manila Standard, August 16, 2017, on page C4)
      Harvesting fish and shellfish from offshore farms could help provide essential protein to a global population set to expand a third to 10 billion by mid-century, researchers said Monday. Suitable open-sea zones have the ...

    • DA-BFAR to help backyard hog raisers in QC 

      (Manila Standard, February 20, 2021, on page A4)
      The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has offered an alternative livelihood to backyard hog raisers in Quezon City affected by the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak. “This is to ...

    • The dark side of prawn farming 

      Morella, Cecil (Manila Standard, April 11, 2008, on page A2)
      She helped turn many of 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 ...

    • Drought batters La Unions's fishpond industry 

      Garcia, William Jun (Manila Standard, April 7, 2014, on page B6)
      The aquaculture sector here is expected to lose money during summer as drought worsens in the province, said an official. “There are 117 hectares of fishponds sowed with bangus, native tilapia and shrimps in five barangays ...

    • EPI to produce fish 

      Estrada, Anna Leah (Manila Standard, February 24, 2014, on page B3)
      Emerging Power Inc., a developer of renewable energy resources, plans to enter into joint ventures with aquaculture farms in Oriental Mindoro province to produce 10 tons of high quality tilapia, sea bass and shrimps annually. ...

    • Fisheries Code blamed for low fish production 

      Casas, Bill (Manila Standard, January 8, 2018, on page A6)
      A fisherfolk group on Sunday blamed the dwindling municipal fish production to the repressive provisions of the amended Fisheries Code under the Republic Act 10654, including its registration and licensing requirements. ...

    • Fisheries reform law needed—Pamalakaya 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, September 18, 2016, on page C2)
      The fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Friday said that Senator Francis Pangilinan was out of touch with reality for stating that the fisheries sector could be an ...

    • Fishermen demand probe of Acosta 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, August 9, 2016, on page A6)
      The fisherman’s Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) demanded the investigation of Laguna Lake Development Authority General Manager Nereus Acosta over the proliferation of fish pens and ...

    • Govt eyes roadmap for PH eel industry 

      Gonzales, Anna Leah (Manila Standard, February 25, 2015, on page B3)
      The government is looking at formulating an eel commodity roadmap to take advantage of the rising global demand for eels, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said Tuesday. “Eels, or igat as they are more known locally, ...

    • Iloilo research center finally breeds 'galunggong' in captivity 

      (Manila Standard, March 3, 2022, on page A3)
      A scientific breakthrough at an Iloilo-based research center might finally be the long-term solution to the perennial shortage of galunggong (round scad) in the Philippines. In a world’s first, researchers successfully ...

    • Isabela fish farm reels in success with Landbank support 

      (Manila Standard, July 22, 2022, on page A3)
      When Cagayan Valley, one of the country’s largest tilapia-producing regions, faced a region-wide shortage of tilapia fingerlings in 1993, business graduate Arnel Santiago decided to establish his own fish hatchery to help ...