Bulletin Today: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Prawn hatchery
(BulletinToday,September 16, 1985 , on page 1)It is ideal for hatcheries to be near the source of wild prawn spawners and broodstock. You have to know the seasonality and volume of prawn catch in the prospective area. Fishermen in the locality can help you determine ... -
New developments in fish production (Part II)
(BulletinToday,September 7, 1984 , on page 1)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%; ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
UNLAD to benefit 10,000 fishermen
(BulletinToday,November 11, 1984 , on page 24)The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA), the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and the Farm Systems Development Corporation (FSDC) entered ... -
Prawn larvae
(BulletinToday,November 27, 1985 , on page 1)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. -
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. -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Seaweeds
(BulletinToday,April 19, 1986 , on page 1)The culture and processing of seaweeds, also known as Eucheuma, have now becomes a very profitable business. In fact, the seaweed industry is now a dollar earner for the country. In the past, seaweeds were exported in ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
Seafdec training program set
(BulletinToday,February 10, 1986 , on page 1)The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD) launched recently its training program for 1986. Intended for those who are engaged in fish farming, who wish to be updated on ... -
Tilapia hatchery: Last part nursery management
(BulletinToday,November 6, 1985 , on page 1)Newly harvested fry are initially reared in hapa net to protect them from predation. The nursery pond is thoroughly cleaned and protected from the entry of predators. As soon as the fry in the hapa reach 2.5-cm. long, they ... -
Prawn's feeding habits
(BulletinToday,January 8, 1985 , on page 1)Unlike fish, prawns are nibblers and slow eaters. They take the food with their pinchers and bring this to their mouth and slowly chew on the food. If the feed is small enough they would throw the whole piece into the mouth. -
Seafdec-AQD pushes research on milkfish
(BulletinToday,January 8, 1985 , on page 1)With the ablation technique for prawns already refined and widely used by fishfarmers, aquaculture scientists are now examining the thesis that a similar manipulation of the sex glands (gonad) of milkfish could speed up ... -
Bighead carp introduced in Bicol
(BulletinToday,September 14, 1985 , on page 24)The fast-growing bighead carp from China was introduced for the first time yesterday in Bicol during a unique lake-seeding activity in honor of the President's 68th birthday. Sponsored by ranking Bicolano career officials ... -
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 ...