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Tilapia with better genes swims upstream to Cordillera highlands
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD), Department of Science and Technology, has approved a P4.1-million grant to determine the best strain of tilapia ...
- March 23, 2018
SEAFDEC develops vaccine against devastating fish virus
Tigbauan, Iloilo - A vaccine is being field tested against a virus that causes one of the world's most lethal fish diseases that wipes out entire stocks. "The emergence of fish diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, and ...
- September 9, 2011
Why abalone
Abalone is a single-shell, herbivorous and nocturnal marine mollusk that thrives under rocks and corals at depths from less than 5 meters to 20 meters. It is unique among shellfish as it is called "sobra-sobra" because the ...
- November 18, 2011
Abalone culture now ready for local farms
Generally, local abalone research and development lags behind other countries like Japan where pioneering R&D started in the 1960s, said Vincent C. Encena III of SEAFDEC's Technology Verification & Demonstration Division, ...
- November 11, 2011
SEAFDEC boosts survival of dwindling seahorse stocks
For the first time, saving baby seahorses in captivity is possible with the simple discovery that washing their food with low dose formalin prevents mass mortality. The new research, made by Shela Mae A. Buen-Ursua at the ...
- August 26, 2011
Filipino savants develop new abalone hybrids
New hybrid technology for abalone farming has been developed by scientists at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Aquaculture Department. The new technology has produced two "presumptive" abalone ...
- November 11, 2011
Major shifts in fish feed formulations
Fish Feed formulations are undergoing major shifts, away from fishmeal and toward the plant, protein concentrates. One reason is the pressure that fish meals and fish oil- for - example, from anchovies, sardines, sprats, ...
- May 25, 2012