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Just off Molocaboc Island, beneath a turquoise canopy of water, fishers search the coral reef to pick out abalone and sea cucumber, two prized delicacies in Asian cuisine. Live abalone sells abroad for up to $120 or approximately P5,700 a kilo, and dried sea cucumber, $2000 or about P96,000 a kilo. But the fishers are not here to cash in on the abalone grazing on coralline substrates and the sea cucumber burrowing in the white sand. Not yet. They carefully weigh and size them, log the numbers in a notebook, and return them to the reef to continue to grow and reproduce. During the formative years of the sea ranching project, the fisherfolks asked when they will benefit from the …

The Partido State University partnered with SEAFDEC/AQD for the implementation of a resource enhancement project at the Lahuy Group of Islands.

Congressman Scott Davies Lanete of the third district of Masbate visited SEAFDEC/AQD in 15 March 2018 to explore a possible linkage towards developing aquaculture in Masbate.

The ongoing project in Molocaboc Island, Sagay City will be continued until 2019

SEAFDEC/AQD joined the Sustainable Seafood Week and shared information and knowledge on sustainable aquaculture

The project collaborators commemorate the CBSE Project at Molocaboc Island, Sagay City last 22 June 2016

APEC 2015 goes to AQD's Tigbauan Main Station on 1 October 2015

SEAFDEC/AQD papers win the first and second place on the Best Published Paper in Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries category.

SEAFDEC/AQD conducts Aquaculture Workshop in Butuan City from 8 to 9 September 2014.