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Sandfish: expensive, endangered, and ecologically essential
Sandfish, or Holothuria scabra, is one of the most threatened tropical sea cucumbers because of its high price, reaching up to $1,600 per kilogram (approximately P80,800) when processed and dried into trepang or beche-de-mer ...
- May 29, 2020
From pollution to profit: Over P3-M shrimp harvested from a hectare
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 ...
- August 17, 2020
Learn aquaculture hands-on snd online!
SEAFDEC/AQD is now accepting applicants for its 2020 training courses.
- January 25, 2020
Lessons on milkfish and crab farming: It’s online learning for PH aquaculture extension workers
Learning online isn’t just for students, it is also for the country’s aquaculture extension workers who listened to lectures and practical sessions on milkfish and mangrove crab culture via an online platform. Forty-eight ...
- October 17, 2020
Online training courses seen to empower aquaculture industry
To help bolster the supply of seafood and sustain the development of the fish farming industry during a pandemic, an aquaculture research center is fast-tracking the development of online training courses. The Southeast ...
- June 24, 2020
Disease-afflicted PH seaweed farms see hope with help of scientists
Seaweed farming, a multi-million dollar export industry in the Philippines, is at the centerpiece of a worldwide effort by scientists to better address the outbreak of diseases and pests that are plaguing the farms. With ...
- October 31, 2020
Tuna farming soon in PH as research project takes off
Japanese technology on farming mackerel tuna, locally known as tulingan, is set to be adopted in the Philippines with a Japanese researcher already procuring breeders to establish a hatchery in Iloilo. Experimental runs ...
- January 8, 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
Mangrove-friendly crab culture, a lucrative source of livelihood
The lush foliage of mangrove forests are now the pride of their host communities – a badge for environmental conservation, a natural protection from storm surges, and a potential tourist draw. This is a far cry from the ...
- February 29, 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