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Fish health network set up
A Southeast Asian center based here and two Philippine government agencies have joined hands to organize a national network for aquatic animal health. The network has been worked on by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...
- August 25, 1996
Iloilo
A Technology Promotion Center (TPC) for Western Visayas will be established. This is stipulated in a memorandum of agreement signed among the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), University of the Philippines in the Visayas ...
- May 2, 1999
Six receive DOST-PCAMRD centennial awards
Six academic and research and development (RAD) institutions and private corporation received centennial awards for Los Baños-based research council of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) when it celebrated its ...
- February 1, 1998
Reaping the gifts of the sea
Our meeting today deals with one of the most basic concerns of Filipino life. Fish is the main source of protein for the Filipino people, with each Filipino consuming 40 kilograms of fish every year. I have learned that ...
- May 4, 1995
'Hito' can now be bred in captivity
Those fearing the extinction of the luscious catfish (hito) need not worry anymore. This popular fish, scientifically named Clarias macrocephalus, can now be induced to spawn in captivity. A scientific technique for this ...
- February 12, 1999
83 Asians complete SEAFDEC AQD courses on aquaculture
Eighty-three Asians, 43 of them Filipinos, have attended separately five training courses on aquaculture conducted by a government-hosted Southeast Asian center based in Iloilo during the past nine months. The courses were ...
- September 24, 1999
Will Drilon be Senate President soon?
While President Erap and his several bus and car loads of entourage had breakfast at a seaside seafood restaurant last Sunday, I joined Sen. Serge Osmeña III who visited SEAFDEC, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...
- December 2, 1998
World aquaculture prod'n dominated by Asian countries
Asia continues to dominate aquaculture production, thus contributing considerably to the sustenance of food security in the region. As it is today, aquaculture, or fishfarming, now offers opportunities as the "last frontier" ...
- December 9, 1998
Iloilo
A research project in netcage culture of tilapia in a small freshwater reservoir has been started in Bingawan town.
- February 15, 1998
Iloilo
The preferred marine fishes or the brackish-water bangus because of their tasty flesh. That time is gradually receding into the past. One proof is the Field Day/Foodfest held recently in Bingawan town under the auspices ...
- March 22, 1998