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Raising milkfish, crabs
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 ...
- December 4, 1984
Milkfish research gets Canadian fund support
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 ...
- June 3, 1982
Social laboratory
In its relentless pursuit of foreign exchange, aquaculture research has, to a lesser degree bypassed the immediate needs of the grassroots population of the country which needs protein and cannot afford the high priced ...
- September 23, 1985
Creation of aquaculture centers sought
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 ...
- July 26, 1985
Tilapia cage farming
The presence of abundant natural food in the water partly ensures a good growth of the fish even without supplemental feeding. During the fry-to-fingerling stage, Nile tilapia feed on plankton - tiny free-floating plants ...
- September 30, 1985
Extensive, not intensive fishfarming
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, ...
- February 12, 1986
Center presents plan for sufficiency in fish
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 ...
- July 29, 1985
Seafdec course scheduled
The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD) announced the holding of its first aquaculture course for scientists on Nov. 20-Dec. 19 this year at its main station in Tigbauan, ...
- November 15, 1985
Fishfarmers cite need for further research
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 ...
- February 5, 1986
Fishfarming ensures daily catch
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 ...
- June 3, 1985