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Expert warns crab farmers against ‘fake’ king crablets
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 ...
- May 20, 2020
Inside the quarantine facility for shrimp with a PCR testing lab to keep out viruses
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 ...
- July 25, 2020
Freshwater prawn a sustainable alternative to tiger shrimp
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 ...
- March 14, 2020
Good news for crab farmers: Simple techniques double crablet production
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, ...
- April 4, 2020