Tag Archives: seaweeds

SEAFDEC/AQD researchers found and demonstrated a groundbreaking way to grow seaweed faster than traditional methods by using lab-grown, tissue-cultured seedlings.

Seaweed farming, a multi-million dollar export industry in the Philippines, is at the centerpiece of a worldwide effort by scientists to better address the outbreak of diseases and pests that are plaguing the farms. With an estimated 116,000 families in the country reliant on seaweed farming, SEAFDEC/AQD as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) GlobalSeaweedStar Project, is working to better understand outbreaks of “ice-ice” disease and epiphyte infestations in farms which have inflicted losses worth as much as 15 percent of the total seaweed production. According to Joseph Faisan, Jr. an associate researcher at SEAFDEC/AQD, “ice-ice” disease (IID) outbreaks are caused by extreme environmental conditions (temperature, salinity, pH, siltation) and are characterized …

SEAFDEC/AQD held an aquaculture technology forum on 21 April 2017 in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines.

Farmers Forum, DKV Memorial Lecture and Book Launching on 14-15 July 2016 at Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines.

SEAFDEC/AQD attends the 37th SEAFDEC Program Committee Meeting and 17th FCG meeting held from 1 to 5 December 2014.

The Philippines hosted the 2014 International Seaweed Congress on November 19-21, 2014 at Waterfront Hotel in Cebu.

SEAFDEC/AQD joins the International Seaweed Congress which will be held from 19 to 21 November at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Cebu City, Philippines.

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