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    • Workshop on artemia (brine shrimp) 

      (Manila Bulletin, April 17, 1988, on page 11)
      An invitation to hatchery and fishpond operators, researchers, fishery teachers and other aquaculture entrepreneurs !!!!

    • SEAFDEC AQD-TLRC seminar on marine finfish hatchery (apahap, samaral, bangus) 

      (Manila Bulletin, April 15, 1988, on page 30)
      Too much emphasis has been made on the culture and hatchery of prawn during the past years. Millions of pesos in investments and capital outlays have been spent on the construction of pond and hatchery facilities for prawn.

    • Prawn culture leads Negros' diversification 

      Orig, Thor S. (Manila Bulletin, April 5, 1988, on page 14)
      Negros, downed a couple of years back by a major slump in world sugar trading is back on the agribusiness scene again, this time with a flourish. Likened to the pliant and sturdy Philippine bamboo, hardworking Negrenses ...

    • Deadly disease hits Iloilo prawn hatheries 

      Alvarez, Ramiro C. (Manila Bulletin, March 29, 1988, on page 31)
      Some 30 newly set up barangay prawn hatcheries in four coastal towns of Iloilo are suffering heavy losses from infestations of a deadly bacterial disease. What makes the disease even more distressing is that it has no known ...

    • SEAFDEC AQD-TLRC seminar on marine finfish hatchery (apahap, samaral, bangus) 

      (Manila Bulletin, April 17, 1988, on page 28)
      Too much emphasis has been made on the culture and hatchery of prawn during the past years. Millions of pesos in investments and capital outlays have been spent on the construction of pond and hatchery facilities for prawn.

    • Aquatic potential of Panay cited 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, March 24, 1990, on page 25)
      The topography and rich aquatic resources pf Panay island qualify the area for exploitation of its aquatic potential, according to the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) based in Tigbauan, some 22 ...

    • Pollution of prawn farms eyed 

      Giron, Olaf S. (Manila Bulletin, April 2, 1990, on page 28)
      Sen. Heherson Alvarez said recently the regulation and control of prawn farms is adequately provided for in Senate Bill No. 1259, the New Pollution Control Law, now up for second reading in the Senate this week. Alvarez, ...

    • High-value seaweeds recommended 

      Orig, Thor S. (Manila Bulletin, May 15, 1990, on page 34)
      The seaweed Gracilaria isn't as popular as Eucheuma, Sargassum and Caulerpa, but it's a high-value commodity if properly harnessed for processing. A well-known derivative of processed Gracilaria is agar, a hydrophilic ...

    • Important researches given awards 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 14, 1990, on page 1)
      The discovery of new local tanning extracts, a system for increasing yield of milkfish (bangus) and a method for carbonizing rice hulls are among the researches that will receive award this week from Agriculture Secretary ...

    • Seabass culture feasible 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 16, 1990, on page 26)
      The highly-prized seabass, locally known as "apahap," has been identified by the Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development as a commodity wherein the country enjoys a comparative advantage or a ...

    • 'Lasang gili' or lasang putik' no more: 'Lambanog' can remove that 'awful' taste from lake-grown fish! 

      Orig, Thor S. (Manila Bulletin, March 30, 1993, on page B-17)
      Now, the good news is that finally, scientists have discovered why fish raised in some bodies of water can have a certain off-flavor called "lasang gilik" or "lasang putik" when cooked, anyway one wants it. This problem ...

    • Fisheries research thrust bared 

      (Manila Bulletin, May 21, 1993, on page B-11)
      Representatives from government agencies, the academe and the private sector met at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) in Tigbauan, Iloilo, recently to review the progress ...

    • Solon urges transfer of fish agencies 

      (Manila Bulletin, December 13, 1992, on page B-3)
      Senator Agapito 'Butz' Aquini, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, has filed a resolution recommending the transfer of all fishery agencies and programs to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

    • SEAFDEC training vessel launched 

      (Manila Bulletin, December 14, 1992, on page S-12)
      The new training vessel, SEAFDEC, of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), was launched recently at the Miho Shipyard in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

    • RP to import 'bangus' fry from Taiwan 

      DSP (Manila Bulletin, August 16, 1995, on page 1)
      After rice, corn and sugar, the Department of Agriculture is proposing the importation of about 500 million bangus (milkfish) fingerling worth P275 million. Agriculture Secretary Roberto Sebastian said the move is intended ...

    • Fisheries research manpower 

      Orig, Thor S. (Manila Bulletin, August 2, 1994, on page 18)
      The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its PhilippineCouncil for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD), has boosted the fisheries research manpower of the country with a graduate research ...

    • Aquaculture seminar set in Naga 

      (Manila Bulletin, September 28, 1994, on page 19)
      A seminar on productivity enhancement technologies in fishpond and other aquaculture systems in Bicol will be held on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the Social Hall of the Bicol College of Arts and Trades (BCAT) in Naga City. The ...

    • Iloilo short of bangus fry 

      PNF (Manila Bulletin, July 21, 1995, on page B-23)
      One of every two hectares of fishpond in Iloilo province today is idle. There is a serious shortage of fish fry here. Only half of the 16,000 hectares of the province's fishponds is stocked, said Fernando de Castro, Iloilo's ...

    • Country's fish resources drastically depleting 

      PNF (Manila Bulletin, August 7, 1995, on page S-14)
      Fisherfolk families in most parts of the Philippines are catching only about three to four kilos of fish these days, indicating severe stress in the country's fishery resources. Speaking at a fisheries workshop here last ...

    • SEAFDEC savants sweep fisheries plums 

      (Manila Bulletin, October 21, 1996, on page 47)
      Researchers of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture (SEAFDEC-AQD) based here swept the 1996 fisheries awards given by the Los Baños Science Community (LBSC). Teresa de Castro and Nicolas Guanzon Jr. ...