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    • Aquaculture recovery depends on managing bacteria antibiotic resistance 

      S&T Media Service (BusinessWorld, February 12, 2001, on page S1/1)
      The two common pathogens in marine and freshwater environments known to scientists as Vibrio spp. and Aeromonas spp. are resistant to antibiotics widely used in aquaculture feeds. This was shown in a survey using bacterial ...

    • BFAR wraps up 'high-tech' fisheries caravan in 10 regions 

      (BusinessWorld, May 10, 2001, on page S1/1)
      The Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) has just concluded its fisheries technology caravan, covering 10 regions and serving tens of thousands of small fishermen, pond operators ...

    • Lobster farms eyed in Samal 

      (BusinessWorld, August 5, 2002, on page 20)
      After the success of its mariculture park, the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) will embark on developing lobster farms in Bakak town for its food security marine culture development program. "This is our next innovation," ...

    • Mariculture park awardee on urban gov't innovation 

      Francisco, C. Q. (BusinessWorld, January 24, 2003, on page 28)
      The Mariculture Park of the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) was named as one of the three awardees of the Urban Good Governance Innovation Facility in Asia. At the same time, The Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI) of ...

    • White shrimp testing requires single protocol 

      (BusinessWorld, April 15, 2005, on page S1/8)
      The National Agricultural and Fishery Council (NAFC) has asked the Bureau of Fisheries and Natural Resources (BFAR) and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) to implement a ...

    • Agusan marsh vital bird sanctuary in Asia 

      Sarmiento, Romer S. (BusinessWorld, September 23, 2005, on page S3/8)
      A scientific expedition to the Agusan marsh in Northeastern Mindanao is scheduled late this year to highlight the need to preserve the area's biodiversity, a scientist said. Dr. Jurgenne Primavera, a senior scientist of ...

    • Gov't pressed to lift vannamei shrimp ban 

      Natividad, Beverly T. (BusinessWorld, January 19, 2006, on page S1/3)
      The fisheries Aquaculture board (FAB) seeks the government’s immediate lifting of the ban on the commercial culture of the vannamei shrimps as initial experimentation showed that it can be bred locally free of disease. In ...

    • RP media remiss in covering mangrove conservation issues 

      (BusinessWorld, June 16, 2006, on page S3/8)
      Issues related to mangrove development and conservation appear to have the least important among Filipino journalists covering the environment, a survey of the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau showed. Kathleen ...

    • SEAFDEC addresses lack of quality seaweed stock 

      Guadalquiver, Nanette L. (BusinessWorld, April 12, 2007, on page S2/5)
      The Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center based in Tigbauan, Iloilo is trying to address the scarcity of good quality seaweed seedstock by conducting the first month-long training on ...

    • Seaweed seedling, gene banks to be established in Tawi-Tawi 

      Wee, Darwin T. (BusinessWorld, April 19, 2007, on page S1/6)
      The government and stakeholders of the seaweed industry in Western Mindanao are set to put up seaweed seedling and gene banks in the province of Tawi-Tawi in the middle of this year. Maria Jaqueline M. Carrasco, executive ...

    • Fish tagging program starts 

      (BusinessWorld, January 16, 2008, on page S1/3)
      Up to 2,400 species of small pelagic fishes like galunggong, tunsoy, tawiles,hasa-hasa, and matangbaka in the waters of Palawan and Manila Bay are targeted for tagging and coding under a joint research program that will ...

    • Prawn sandwich destroys fish nurseries: expert 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, April 11, 2008, on page S1/11)
      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 ...

    • Fisheries industry expected to grow 5% 

      Morales, Neil Jerome C. (BusinessWorld, January 20, 2010, on page S1/6)
      The fisheries sector is seen to grow by at least 5% this year amid increased presence of pelagic fish on the eastern side of the country as a result of El Niño. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is ...

    • Protecting the Coral Triangle a top priority 

      NJCM (BusinessWorld, January 20, 2010, on page S1/1-S1/3)
      Protecting the biodiversity-rich Coral Triangle needs the combined efforts of the government and private sector, and should be a top priority if the region wants to sustain the area's vast fishery resource, experts yesterday ...

    • Reflections on water 

      Kaelin, Lukas (BusinessWorld, January 26, 2010, on page S1/5)
      There is no doubt the importance of water for all life on our planet. Civilizations developed along bodies of waters, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Throughout the long stretches of history, water has been understood as a ...

    • Local tuna industry reeling from ban; jobless workers on rise 

      Sarmiento, Romer S. (BusinessWorld, January 26, 2010, on page S1/3)
      Players in the local tuna industry are now feeling the pinch of the closure of the high seas in portions of the Pacific Ocean, with one fishing company officially informing the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) of ...

    • New methods could control fish disease 

      Villamor, Marites S. (BusinessWorld, January 28, 2010, on page S1/8)
      Scientists at the Iloilo-based Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) have developed methods and vaccines to control the viral nervous necrosis disease in economically ...

    • Sardine industry banking on warmer seas to increase catch 

      Wee, Darwin T. (BusinessWorld, February 2, 2010, on page S1/3)
      While most businesses in the agriculture sector are bracing for the negative impact of El Niño this year, the Fishery bureau and the sardine industry are banking on the warmer seas in the western Pacific Ocean to bring in ...

    • Philippines, Brunei explore partnership on sardine processing 

      Liu, K. J. R. (BusinessWorld, February 10, 2010, on page S1/3)
      The government of the Philippines and of Brunei are working on a tie-up that will see Brunei availing of Philippine expertise in sardine processing and the latter riding on the former's halal brand to penetrate the lucrative ...

    • Tuna firm bullish on salmon venture, Indonesian unit 

      Liu, Kristine Jane R. (BusinessWorld, February 10, 2010, on page S1/8)
      Alliance Tuna International, Inc. expects both revenues and net income yo grow by nearly a third this year, as expansion activities bear fruit. Teresita S. Ladanga, Alliance Tuna chief operating officer, said in an interview ...