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Kapis shell industry - can the downfall be reversed?
Kapis shell once made a record of ranking in US$35 million and placed 5th among the major fishery export products of the Philippines. That was 1991. Today, the number of kapis are dwindling and worst, they have totally ...
- February 19, 2002
Tigbauan: a passion for history
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 ...
- October 24, 2005
Efforts on to prevent the collapse of shrimp industry
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) here hastened the promotion of an "environment-friendly shrimp grow-out technology" in an effort to prevent the virtual collapse of the shrimp industry. This, after ...
- August 13, 2003
Gov't ceases multi-million white shrimp research
A multi-million peso research on Vannamei, a foreign white shrimp, has been discontinued by the government-owned National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) in view of the controversy surrounding ...
- April 14, 2005
Seabass project reap good harvest
Five months of culture. About 200 pieces of seabass, weighing a total 83 kilograms or nearly half-kilo each fish. Suddenly, a dream project becomes reality. Early this month, on February 2, the top managers of the Southeast ...
- February 13, 2007
"We want our diwal back"
Diwal or the angelwing clam (Pholas orientalis) is indigenous to the coastal waters of Negros Occidental and Iloilo but particularly abundant in Capiz province (particularly in towns of Sapian, Ivisian, Panay, Pontevedra, ...
- February 27, 2002
Training to boost aqua-marine industry held in Capiz
The season-long training to help boost the province's aquamarine production was recently concluded. Provincial Agriculture chief Sylvia de la Cruz disclosed that the first phase of the collaborative fisheries development ...
- July 21, 2007