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    Prawn sandwich destroys Philippines fish nurseries

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    Date
    April 11, 2008
    Author
    Morella, Cecil
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    MT20080411_A5
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    She helped turn many of the world’s prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life’s work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipina zoologist, whose research on breeding the black tiger prawn became a manual that revolutionized the aquaculture industry, pointed at 66 hectares (163 acres) of brackish water fishponds at the bottom of a windy bluff in this seaside town south of Manila. Despite cheap government loans and generous land leases in the 1970s, prawn culture failed to reach its full potential in the Philippines, where the ponds turned out to be better suited for growing milkfish, said Primavera of the Philippines-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre.
    Citation
    Morella, C. (2008, April 11). Prawn sandwich destroys Philippines fish nurseries. The Manila Times, p. A5.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/3989
    Corporate Names
    Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) University of Queensland University of Brussels
    Personal Names
    Primavera, Jurgenne de los Reyes, Jessie Duke, Norman Carpenter, Kent Koedam, Nico
    Subject
    shrimp culture zoologists marine ecology ground water Governments aquaculture botanists mangroves fish ponds nursery ponds
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