Browsing Bulletin Today by Name "Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD)"
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Aquaculture meet opens today
(BulletinToday,February 10, 1985 , on page 1)Engineers engaged in aquaculture operations in the country will gather at the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department main station in Tigbauan, Iloilo Oct. 2-5 for a consultative meeting on the engineering requirements of a fast ... -
Aquaculture training program intensified
(BulletinToday,July 25, 1983 , on page 17)The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) has intensified its training program and technology transfer for the past years. This was disclosed by SEAFDEC director Alfredo C. Santiago, Jr. who said that ... -
Canadian expert cites Seafdec
(BulletinToday,December 9, 1985 , on page 13)A top official of the International Development Research Center (IDRC), a Canadian-based development organization, has lauded the progress of the research projects being undertaken by the Philippine-based aquaculture ... -
Center presents plan for sufficiency in fish
(BulletinToday,July 29, 1985 , on page 1)The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD) has presented a four-year plan which aims to achieve for the country self-sufficiency in fish by 1987. The plan also aims to ... -
Creation of aquaculture centers sought
(BulletinToday,July 26, 1985 , on page 10)Members of Parliament Narciso D. Monfort (KBL, Iloilo) has filed with the Batasang Pambansa a resolution urging the establishment of regional fish farming assistance units in the country. Resolution No. 586 urged the ... -
Extensive, not intensive fishfarming
(BulletinToday,February 12, 1986 , on page 1)How intensive is intensive? Fishpond operators may claim that they are engaged in intensive prawn culture if they have stocked their ponds with 10,000 to 50,000 fry per hectare. And based on Philippine industry standards, ... -
Feeds and feeding
(BulletinToday,November 27, 1985 , on page 1)Prawn larvae begin to eat the moment they become protozoea which feed on some of the most commonly cultured phytoplankton. These are Skeletonema, Chaetoceros, and Tetraselmis. -
Fishery program proposed
(BulletinToday,August 26, 1985 , on page 1)Today the developing country that has insufficient fishery resources, or having such resources, but fails to develop them, is at a great disadvantage. For if it cannot make good at producing enough animal protein, or at ... -
Fishfarm industry discussed
(BulletinToday,February 11, 1985 , on page 16)Member of Parliament Narciso Monfort of Iloilo has offered the facilities of his office to ensure a full discussion of the concerns and problems of the fish-farming industry when Philippine Federation of Aquaculturists ... -
Fishfarmers cite need for further research
(BulletinToday,February 5, 1986 , on page 1)Fishfarmers urged yesterday the aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development (Seafdec-AQD) to take into consideration specific fishfarming problems in the planning of its research program. Ramon ... -
Fishpond confab ends
(BulletinToday,April 13, 1983 , on page 8)Over 600 fish farmers in the country participated in the recent two-day First National Conference of Fishpond Operators at Manila Garden Hotel, sponsored by the Philippine Federation of Aquaculturists. Observers said it ... -
Great promise in fishfarming (Part I)
(BulletinToday,September 6, 1984 , on page 1-8)Common fishfarm products which used to be taken for granted apparently hold the answer to the government's need for increasing agricultural productivity, generating more livelihood opportunities and earning valuable foreign ... -
Incentives
(BulletinToday,February 12, 1986 , on page 1)Agricultural and fisheries activities are two particular fields which the government supports with incentives. The rationale behind this is their greater susceptibility to investment risks than other business ventures, ... -
It's painful but it hastens prawn fertilization
(BulletinToday,July 8, 1985 , on page 14)At the research station here of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec), researchers may be considered 'sadists': They are inflicting painful injuries to female prawns by pinching or crushing their ... -
Milkfish - from the wild to the farm
(BulletinToday,July 14, 1983 , on page 1-10)Milkfish, known to science as Chanos chanos, is the main product of some 200,000 hectares of brackishwater ponds in the Philippines. It contributes 130,000 metric tons to the country's total fish production. This is 10 ... -
Mitra twits Laurel on 'faux pas'
(BulletinToday,November 19, 1986 , on page 1)Agriculture Minister Ramon V. Mitra Jr. yesterday twitter Vice President and Foreign Affairs Minister Salvador H. Laurel for the "diplomatic faux pass" of appointing to the directorship of the Southeast Asian Fisheries ... -
More prawn hatcheries set up
(BulletinToday,April 7, 1983 , on page 1-8)SEAFDEC operates three experimental small-tank hatchery systems and one large tank hatchery system to mass-produce fry in research stations in Iloilo and Aklan. With continuing research since 1977, the aquaculture department ... -
New developments in fish production (Part II)
(BulletinToday,September 7, 1984 , on page 1-13)The Aquaculture Department of the SEAFDEC has developed four new techniques to help solve the problem of milkfish fry shortage: including wild and captivity; rearing milkfish larvae to fry at survival rates of up to 70%; ... -
Phytoplankton
(BulletinToday,February 5, 1986 , on page 1)Making the fish feed on the natural food organisms in the aquatic environment is the least expensive way of rearing. In Laguna de Bay, as much as 4.5 kilograms of algae accumulate in cages after two weeks. Diatoms (navicula, ... -
Pond planning - II
(BulletinToday,September 9, 1985 , on page 27)Soil is an important factor in fishpond productivity because of its ability to absorb and release the plant nutrients needed by phytoplankton which is the natural food of fish. It is the main and most economical source of ...