SEAFDEC/AQD Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center | Aquaculture Department

Have you ever tried intermittent fasting? While some people alternate periods of fasting and non-fasting for various health reasons, researchers from SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department have found a different application for intermittent fasting. Not for themselves but for eels.

While the El Niño phenomenon brings about a cascade of environmental changes, it also presents an opportunity for milkfish production.

BARBAZA, Antique – A new batch of wild mackerel tuna was transported by an international research organization to its facility in Tigbauan, Iloilo as part of its bid to create a tuna farming industry in the Philippines.

SEAFDEC/AQD co-organized an “On-site Training in Using Concentrated Microalgae in Larval Rearing of Sandfish Holothuria scabra” attended by 18 trainees from various hatcheries in Eastern Visayas.

The population of the Hokkai shrimp Pandalus latirostris has been declining over the past years. Dr. Sayaka Ito, Deputy Chief of SEAFDEC/AQD, partnered with scientists from the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA) to study the shrimp in Akkeshi Bay and Lake Akkeshi in Hokkaido.