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    • Sea ranching of abalone launched in Nogas Island 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, August 7, 2007, on page B8)
      More than 5,000 abalone (Haliotis asinia) juveniles were seeded into the Nogas Island Marine Sanctuary on July 24. This is part of an experimental sea-ranching activity jointly undertaken by the Southeast Asian Fisheries ...

    • Seabass project reap good harvest 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, February 21, 2007, on page B1)
      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 ...

    • SEAFDEC and ACIAR collaborate on mudcrab in Northern Samar 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, July 19, 2007, on page 2-6)
      Mudcrab's profile as prized aquaculture commodity just got another boost. SEAFDEC/AQD together with the Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) joined forces to implement CATP or the Community ...

    • SEAFDEC conducts training on seaweed biotech 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, April 10, 2007, on page B1)
      To survive, seaweeds need to be tougher too, and the commercially important ones like Kappaphycus and Gracilaria can be made so with the help of research. In comes biotechnology. Not to mess with the genetic make-up of ...

    • SEAFDEC to hold forum for businessmen 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, August 22, 2007, on page 2-6)
      SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department (AQD) is inviting entrepreneurs and aquaculture industry stakeholders to the ABOT (Agree-Build-Organize-Transfer) Aquaculture Business Forum which will be held October 16-17 at the Philippine ...

    • SEAFDEC/AQD urges biosecurity for shrimp farms 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, June 16, 2007, on page 2-6)
      In a recent biosecurity forum, Dr. Joebert Toledo, Chief of the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), has offered to provide shrimp farmers free diagnostic services as ...

    • Study: Philippines' largest lake under threat 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, March 5, 2008, on page 5)
      Pollution, slums and an invasion of foreign fish species are threatening the Philippines' largest lake, one of the nation's major fish farming regions, according to a study published Tuesday. Laguna de Bay on the outskirts ...

    • Whopping fish declared new species 

      (Visayan Daily Headlines, August 23, 2008, on page B3-B2)
      A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests. Called the goliath grouper, the fish can grow to six ...

    • Yap orders thorough probe on Quedancor fund mess 

      Ison, Lilybeth G. (Visayan Daily Headlines, July 16, 2007, on page 2)
      Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has ordered a thorough audit of the loan portfolio of the Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) due to the more than P500 million unexplained losses to the government. In a ...