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    • 'Gold' seen in sea cucumbers 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, May 14, 2010, on page 15)
      Sea cucumbers are good bets for fish farmers wanting to find the new "gold" in aquaculture at the selling price of US$180 to 250 per kilogram (12,000 per kg) in the United States, a Department of Agriculture press release ...

    • Hatchery training course set in Iloilo 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, February 12, 2008, on page 15)
      Applications are now open for participation in the first in-country marine fish hatchery training course for the Philippines to be held in Iloilo by the Network of Aquaculture Centers in the Asia Pacific and the Southeast ...

    • Instruction course on mangroves slated 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, February 25, 2008, on page 17)
      The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department will hold a training course on Mangrove Ecology, Taxonomy and Community Structure on April 15 to 20 at AQD's Tigbauan Main Station in Tigbauan, Iloilo ...

    • Organic aquaculture gets boost with joint initiatives 

      Guadalquiver, Nanette L. (The Visayan Daily Star, October 3, 2007, on page 13)
      Organic aquaculture is getting a boost with the joint initiatives of Negros Occidental, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), German Development Services (DED) and their other partners in looking into the feasibility of ...

    • Petron, SEAFDEC to implement milkfish cage project in Guimaras 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, July 18, 2007, on page 13)
      Top officials of Petron Foundation Inc. and Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Aquaculture Department have signed an agreement for the joint implementation of the P3-million project on milkfish cage culture for ...

    • SEAFDEC holds first seaweed biotech training in RP 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, April 10, 2007, on page 13)
      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. ...

    • SEAFDEC makes first seabass harvest in Antique town 

      NLG (The Visayan Daily Star, February 19, 2007, on page 19)
      The Southeast Sian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department based in Tigbauan-Iloilo saw its initial seabass harvest las February 2 at its project site in Hamtic, Antique after five months of culture. The SEAFDEC ...

    • SEAFDEC to hold aquaculture business gab 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, September 24, 2007, on page 17)
      The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department will hold an Agree-Build-Organize-Transfer Aquaculture Business Forum on October 16 and 17 at the Philippine Social Science Center in Diliman, Quezon ...

    • SEAFDEC: Ensure biosecurity for shrimp farms 

      (The Visayan Daily Star, June 18, 2007, on page 17)
      The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center said it will provide free diagnostic services to shrimp farmers who suspect or experience a disease outbreak. SEAFDEC said in a press release that in its recent biosecurity ...