AQD is in need of technical assistant for its socioeconomics section in Tigbauan, Iloilo.

SEAFDEC/AQD raises funds for its community partners from Barangays Codingle and Tamulalod in Dumarao, Capiz through an online benefit auction that will run from 15 December 2011 until 15 January 2012. The auction activity aims to help the community on their livelihood projects.

Approximately 450 kg of siganid will be harvested from SEAFDEC/AQD’s Dumangas Brackishwater Station on 15 December. You can buy the siganid with sizes 200-350 g ranging from Php 120 to Php 170 per kg. You may get in touch with AQD’s Materials Control Unit at (033) 511-8091 or (033) 511-9171 loc 320 for your orders.

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Fresh milkfish from SEAFDEC/AQD’s Milkfish cage culture project with Petron in Guimaras will be harvested on 7 or 8 December. The retail price of sizes 350 g and below is Php 95 per kg while sizes 400 g and above are priced at Php 110 per kg. Place your orders on or before 6 December through AQD’s Materials Control Unit at (033) 511-8091 or (033) 511-9171 loc 320.

On 1 December 2001, SEAFDEC/AQD and the Government of Japan Trust Fund (GOJ-TF) hosted the International seminar on environment-friendly aquaculture & stock enhancement in Southeast Asia and concluded the International training course on community-based freshwater aquaculture for remote rural areas of Southeast Asia.

AQD is now hiring a systems & network administrator. Deadline of submission of applications is on 06 January 2012.

To make research-and-development in fisheries more responsive to the needs of its 11 member-countries, SEAFDEC convened two meetings to work out its 2012 activities, including collaboration with ASEAN. AQD and DA-BFAR hosted these meetings in Manila from 14 to 18 November.

On 25 November, SEAFDEC/AQD will be selling milkfish harvested from its Igang Marine Station. Sizes 350 g and below are priced at Php 95 per kg while sizes 400 g and above cost Php 110 per kg. For orders, please call AQD’s Materials Control Unit at (033) 511-8091 or (033) 511-9171 loc 320 not later than 24 November.

SEAFDEC/AQD organized two on-site training on mud crab culture and fish health management in Myanmar and Lao PDR, respectively. The mud crab training was held from 26 September to 1 October; while fish health training was conducted from 11-14 October. Both training were funded by the Government of Japan Trust Fund.

SEAFDEC/AQD passed the Ring test or Inter-laboratory calibration organized by the Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology of the University of Arizona, USA, headed by Dr. Donald Lightner. AQD promotes good aquaculture practices through early disease detection using reliable test methods.

Around 500 kg of milkfish will be harvested from SEAFDEC/AQD’s Igang Marine Station (IMS) on 18 November. The retail price per kg of sizes 350 g and below is Php 95 while sizes 400 g and above cost Php 110. You may place your orders through AQD’s Materials Control Unit at (033) 511-8091 or (033) 511-9171 loc 320 not later than 17 November.

The international seminar Environment-friendly aquaculture and stock enhancement in Southeast Asia will take place at SEAFDEC/AQD in Iloilo, Philippines on 1 December 2011. Organized by the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University in Japan, the seminar will include presentations by AQD researchers who received study grants from the Japan society for the promotion of science through its Asia-Africa science platform program.

Around a thousand pupils, teachers, and facilitators from the Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs visited SEAFDEC/AQD on 26 October.

AQD is in need of one information assistant for its Library and Data Banking Services Section in Tigbauan, Iloilo.

There will be another milkfish harvest from SEAFDEC/AQD’s Igang Marine Station on 28 October. Milkfish, with sizes 350 g and below, are priced at Php 95 while sizes 400 g and above will be sold at Php 105. For orders of this fresh harvest, you may contact AQD’s Materials Control Unit at (033) 511-8091 or (033) 511-9171 loc 320.

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SEAFDEC/AQD and the Agricultural Cooperative Development International / Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA), a nonprofit international development organization based in the United States, put together a mud crab and fish cultivation livelihood project for Timor-Leste.