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It's painful but it hastens prawn fertilization
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 ...
- July 8, 1985
Prawn nursery cage
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 ...
- October 7, 1985
Prawn larvae
The growing interest of fish farmers in the culture of prawn and the recent development on improved farming have increased the demand for prawn fry. The fry from the wild alone is inadequate to meet the needs of the prawn farmers.
- November 27, 1985
Study cites ways to make prawn, shrimp culture more profitable
Prawn and shrimp production utilizing recently-developed brackishwater fishpond culture techniques performs better in terms of profitabilities per unit area compared with rice and corn production. This was one of the more ...
- December 11, 1985
RP's prawn industry
Marine prawns and shrimps, including the delicious sugpo or giant tiger prawn, constitute one of the major dollar earners of the Philippines. Exports have steadily increased from 1,700 tons valued at ₱50 million in 1975 ...
- March 5, 1983
Prawn farmers get gov't assistance
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 ...
- April 8, 1983
To teach BFAR specialists prawn culture technology
An intensive nine-month training program on prawn development for Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) participants will be held at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department ...
- June 17, 1983
SEAFDEC boosts aquaculture work
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) aquaculture department substation in Batan, Aklan, is boosting aquaculture research and development in Northern Panay, widely recognized as the country's main prawn ...
- January 31, 1983
More prawn hatcheries set up
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 ...
- April 7, 1983