With the apparent resurgence of the lucrative shrimp industry, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Aquaculture Department (Seafdec/AQD) is urging shrimp growers to include reservoir and tails pond in their culture system to ensure sustainability. A reservoir is about 25 percent of the culture area where all incoming water is stored for at least a week and biologically treated before releasing into the environment. Seafdec/AQD has consistently demonstrated the viability and profitability of its intensive culture system and now being promoted nationwide in collaboration with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

Learn from mistakes shrimps growers told. (2001, August 11). Panay News, pp. 3, 6.