SEAFDEC/AQD Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center | Aquaculture Department

Scientists have found out that these stable isotopes interact differently with the environment compared to the same atoms of normal weight. This finding has led to methods involving isotopes that let us know details about what an organism eats.

Abandoned brackishwater ponds, if left untouched, can find themselves thriving with the prized mangrove crabs. Allowing mangroves to recolonize abandoned ponds may even provide local fishers with a lucrative source of income.

Twenty participants from SEAFDEC member countries completed the Japan-funded “Regional Training Course on Advanced Aquaculture Technologies for Commercially Important Commodities in Southeast Asia,” organized by SEAFDEC/AQD on 9–26 Oct. 2023.

AQD inaugurated its new Black Tiger Shrimp Broodstock Facility in Tigbauan Iloilo on 3 July 2023. It was built to reduce reliance on wild shrimp spawners that often carry diseases which are then passed on to their eggs and larvae.

Adding mud worm to feeds promotes fertility in both female and male shrimp. But what exactly is in mud worms that make them fertility-boosting shrimp food?