SEAFDEC/AQD Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center | Aquaculture Department

Members of PTAC endorsed and commended AQD's 49 studies under its departmental and regional programs as well as its special project last 9 October 2019

PANABO City, Davao del Norte – Various aspects of milkfish culture and production were discussed in a  free four-day on-site training course from 15 to 18 October 2019 at the National Mariculture Center here.

A recent SEAFDEC study devised a new method to determine the sex and maturity of grouper without subjecting them to the painful process of cannulation biopsy.

Dan Baliao, chief of the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center gets to serve another two years, until 2021, after his reappointment was approved by the SEAFDEC Council.

An award-winning technology for algae harvesting is now available in the Philippines, boosting efforts to reduce the cost of producing fish fry in hatcheries through the use of algal paste.