Research Highlights

SEAFDEC/AQD added two commodities to its business package for entrepreneurs under the ABOT mechanism (Agree-build-operate-transfer AquaBusiness). These are pompano and mangrove red snapper whose hatchery, nursery and grow-out culture technologies are ready for commercialization.

Fishfarmers can utilize plastic drums as larval rearing tanks to reduce costs.

SEAFDEC/AQD has the technology to grow the tropical abalone (Haliotis asinina) to cocktail size in a much shorter period (from the usual ten to the present six months) by using especially-designed prefabricated plastic trays stocked with 50 pieces abalone per m².

AQD expects to increase its milkfish hatchery production in 2-3 years with the acquisition and transport of more than 100 milkfish broodstock on 2 April 2012.

AQD recently contributed two innovations – a simple technique in increasing survival in seahorse seed production and a vaccine against viral nervous necrosis in marine fish.

Based on the study conducted by SEAFDEC/AQD scientists Dr. Emilia Quinitio and Dr. Fe Dolores Estepa, cannibalism among small mud crabs can be reduced by trimming the chelipeds during the intermolt and postmolt stage. SEE LIST OF AQD SCIENCE PAPERS IN 2011

In the science journal Aquaculture Research, researchers correlated low temperature and low salinity to the outbreak of WSSV (white spot syndrome virus) in tiger shrimp ponds in the Philippines.