If you can’t lick them, eat them. Or feed them to other fish. The knife fish, an ornamental fish whose population has boomed and is harming the aquaculture industry in Laguna Lake, will be converted into fish meal and fed to sea bass cultured at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) research center here.
If there is someone who deserves to be called “Bangus King” here, it is Eduardo Maramba, who belongs to four generations of milkfish growers.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Chinese softshell turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis) have found their way in the waters of Pampanga, Bulacan and Bataan, preying on bangus (milkfish) and tilapia fingerlings in fishponds there, an environment official said on Tuesday. Maximo Dichoso, executive director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Luzon, said he [...]
The production of malaga (siganid), one of the high-value fish species in the country, will soon intensify after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) successfully bred the fish in captivity.
Thousands of bangus (milkfish) went belly up here on Thursday after a fishkill hit two areas in this coastal city.
President Benigno Aquino III and his entourage arrived in Manila on Sunday afternoon from the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok, Russia.
Operators of fish pens in Laguna Lake are bracing for bad news as a still undetermined number of fish that they were keeping in the pens were lost when the lake level rose at the height of heavy rains early this week.
The old woman wailed when she saw a number of her fully grown tilapia floating in Lake Bito in MacArthur, one of the poorest towns of Leyte and the Eastern Visayas region, on March 15.
The agriculture office in Calamba, Laguna province, on Friday ordered fish pen operators in their coastal area to bury the tons of dead tilapia plucked out from Laguna de Bay.
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—The multi-agency Task Force Taal Lake dismantled circular fish cages as it moved to phase out this type of structure in Taal Lake. Last week, four circular bamboo fish cages were dismantled in Barangay Sampaloc in Talisay, Batangas, said task force vice chair and Batangas City environment and natural resources officer Laudemir Salac. [...]
Now it’s Dagupan’s oysters’ turn to take the limelight.
People who make a living around Lake Sebu are hoping for the rain to cleanse the water following the sudden surge of cold water that left at least 50 tons of tilapia floating dead.
The sea might be the key to the long-awaited peace in the restive Sulu province.
