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 Sufficiency Program.”. The recent acquisition of the milkfish broodstock will augment the more than 300 being maintained in Tigbauan main station and Igang Marine Station.To date, AQD has produced and dispersed/sold 16M hatchery-bred excluding the 380,000 fry produced in newly-built hatchery in Sagnay, Camarines Sur. The significant decline of milkfish fry, left milkfish producers no option but to depend heavily on private and government milkfish hatcheries and to some extent imported fry from Indonesia.

Milkfish fry sufficiency program in full swing. (2019, January 5). The Daily Guardian, pp. 7, 11.