Browsing Bulletin Today by Subject "aquaculture"
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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 ... -
Carp-raising breakthrough bared
(BulletinToday,January 14, 1985 , on page 14)Researchers at the station of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) at Tapao Point here have chalked up another breakthrough in fishfarming - the successful spawning of the fast-growing bighead Chinese ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Fishfarming ensures daily catch
(BulletinToday,June 3, 1985 , on page 34)Just 15 minutes drive from Makati is a fishing village lying along the shoreline of Laguna Lake. Here, almost everyone fishes to live and lives to fish. Lower Bicutan in Taguig, a community of some 800 families, holds a ... -
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)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 ... -
Milkfish - from the wild to the farm
(BulletinToday,July 14, 1983 , on page 1)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 ... -
Milkfish research gets Canadian fund support
(BulletinToday,June 3, 1982 , on page 9)The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada has approved a $423,600 grant for the SEAFDEC aquaculture department to implement Phase III of the milkfish research project, starting April 1. Phase III, which ... -
More prawn hatcheries set up
(BulletinToday,April 7, 1983 , on page 1)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 ... -
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
(BulletinToday,September 2, 1985 , on page 28)Water supply is the most important factor to consider in determining the sustainability of the fishpond site. It should be adequately supplied and available the whole year round. Water should be moved in and out of the ... -
Prawn farmers get gov't assistance
(BulletinToday,April 8, 1983 , on page 1)An intensified program to bring field-tested ready-to-apply technology in prawn culture has begun to bolster the country's prawn industry. The SEAFDEC aquaculture department has launched a program to assist prawn farmers ... -
Prawn nursery cage
(BulletinToday,October 7, 1985 , on page 1)Seafdec researchers have developed a technique for intensive post-larval rearing of prawn using a floating nursery cage. This is much easier to manage compared to nursery ponds. It is also cheaper in terms of materials ... -
Raising milkfish, crabs
(BulletinToday,December 4, 1984 , on page 10)Milkfish and mudcrabs are not strange bedfellows. They can be raised in the same pond with encouraging results, as found in a trial conducted by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department in ...