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                    [Title] => Department of Agriculture mulls bigger fisheries budget
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to allocate a hefty P1 billion budget for the fisheries subsector, particularly aquaculture, next year. 

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 386745 [Title] => Apahap raising in fishponds [Summary] => Apahap (seabass), a freshwater fish species, can now be profitably grown in fishponds.

This was proven by a research project involving a technology developed by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 345519 [Title] => Scientists turn to biotech to save ailing seaweed industry [Summary] => The export-oriented seaweed industry may soon get relief from the anticipated breakthrough in biotechnology researches that would eliminate the menacing "ice-ice" disease spreading in seaweed farms nationwide.

"By next year, we should have enough ice-ice disease-resistant seaweed strains in our seed bank that we could distribute to seaweed farms especially in the major seaweed-producing areas in the country," said Dr. Joebert Toledo, director of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Tigbauan, Iloilo.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335884 [Title] => Casiguran seen to rise as ‘seafood capital’ [Summary] => CASIGURAN, Aurora — This coastal town facing the Pacific Ocean could become the country’s seafood capital in the coming years with the establishment of a P3-billion mariculture park.

Experts said the mariculture park within the 3,000-hectare Casiguran Bay could turn this sleepy town into a fish sanctuary and a showcase of aquaculture tourism in Northern Luzon.

Malcolm Sarmiento, director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), said Casiguran is one of the best sites for a mariculture park because of its vast marine resources and planktons. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097277 [AuthorName] => Manny Galvez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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