Browsing DailyGuardian by Subject "animal diseases"

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    • Expert warns crab farmers against ‘fake’ king crablets 

      De La Cruz, Joesyl Marie (DailyGuardian, May 20, 2020, on page 6)
      Losses experienced by some crab farmers in the Philippines were traced to the very low survival of crablets that were misidentified as the popular king crab. Farmers prefer to culture king crab because it grows bigger and ...

    • Freshwater prawn a sustainable alternative to tiger shrimp 

      Dianala, Rex Delsar B. (DailyGuardian, March 14, 2020, on page 7)
      Growing up to a foot long, three to a kilo and with a taste very much likened to lobster and tiger shrimp, one would wonder why not more people in the Philippines are farming freshwater prawns. Locally known as ulang or ...

    • From pollution to profit: Over P3-M shrimp harvested from a hectare 

      Ledesma, Rossea Hosillos (DailyGuardian, August 17, 2020, on page 6)
      By recycling excess nutrients that would otherwise have been released to the environment, a shrimp farm harvested almost 13 tons of shrimp worth P3.3 million after just over 4 months of culture. Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus ...

    • Global experts: Info sharing on aquaculture a must in ASEAN 

      (DailyGuardian, July 12, 2019, on page 7)
      Global experts in aquaculture said in a recent international workshop here that to enhance successes in resource enhancement and prevent failures in the aquaculture industry, member-countries of the Association of Southeast ...

    • Good news for crab farmers: Simple techniques double crablet production 

      de la Cruz, Joesyl Marie (DailyGuardian, April 4, 2020, on page 7)
      Crab farmers will be happier, and the environment hopefully better, with recent improvements at the mangrove crab hatchery of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) in Tigbauan, ...

    • Inside the quarantine facility for shrimp with a PCR testing lab to keep out viruses 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) (DailyGuardian, July 25, 2020, on page 6)
      Long before COVID-19 imposed mandatory quarantine and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing on travellers, a small building in a seaside town has been serving to regularly quarantine and test ...

    • SEAFDEC leads early warning efforts for aquatic diseases 

      (DailyGuardian, April 12, 2019, on page 8)
      Aquaculture Division (AQD)chief Dan Baliao reported during the 51stSoutheast Asian Fisheries Development Council (SEAFDEC) Meeting on March 18-22, 2019 in East Java, Indonesia the progress in the development of “Aquatic ...

    • SEAFDEC reminds shrimp growers to avoid stocking ponds during cold months 

      Ledesma, Rossea Hosillos (DailyGuardian, February 22, 2020, on page 7)
      To prevent the entry of shrimp diseases, shrimp farmers are advised not to stock their ponds during cold months if their farms are not biosecurity-compliant or fully equipped to prevent the entry of shrimp diseases. Experts ...

    • SEAFDEC, BFAR train Samar-Leyte fish growers 

      (DailyGuardian, June 1, 2019, on page 8)
      An on-site training in marine aquaculture of high value fishes was conducted at Hotel Alejandro in Tacloban City. More than 80 participants, mostly Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) training officers from ...