Challenge 09: Skills, knowledge, and technology for all
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Ocean Decade
Challenge 09:
Skills, knowledge, and technology for all
Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders.
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- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 227: Series of 2008. Rules and regulations governing the export of fish and aquatic products to European Union member countries.(Department of Agriculture, 2008-11-20)This Order, consisting of 11 articles, establishes Rules and Regulations governing the Export of Fish and Live Aquatic Animals Products to European Member Countries. This Order lays down specific rules on the hygiene of processed and unprocessed FA products for business operators intending to export their products to the EU for human consumption. Unless specifically stated to the contrary, this Order does not apply to processed foods containing both products of plant origin and processed FA products. However, any processed FA products used to prepare such foods must be obtained and handled in accordance with the requirements of this Order. This Order must apply without prejudice to the general requirements of Republic Act No 8550, Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998, and the following FAOs as applied to the harvesting, production, preparation and processing of FA products for domestic or non-EU markets: The Fishery and Aquaculture Business Operator Responsibilities (FABO) must comply with the requirements of the relevant provisions of the PD 856 - Code of Sanitation of the Philippines - and such additional provisions of this Order that are required by EU legislation from time to time in force. FABO must also comply with the relevant provisions in Chapters I to V of the Implementing Code of Practice for this Order ("The Code of GMP for Business Operators Exporting FA Products from the Philippines to the EU, 2008") and take all steps necessary to meet the food safety objectives set by this Order. In addition, FABO must ensure that all processed FA products exported to the EU comply with all relevant EU food safety legislation, in particular that relating to: (i) specified maximum levels for certain contaminants such as histamine, heavy metals, dioxins and PCB-like materials, and poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, set out in Chapter III, Section II, Part VII of the Code of Practice referred to in paragraph 2; (ii) microbiological criteria; (iii) permitted veterinary drugs and maximum residues arising from their use; (iv) food contact materials; and (v) permitted food additives and their conditions of use.
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 226: Series of 2008. Regulation on the mesh size of tuna purse seine nets and trading of small tuna.(Department of Agriculture, 2008-08-01)This Administrative Order, consisting of 6 Sections, establishes the Regulation on the Mesh Size of Tuna Purse Seine Nets and Trading of Small Tuna. The following management and conservation measures to prescribe the mesh size of tuna purse seine nets in catching tuna and regulation on the trading of small tuna are promulgated to prohibit to any person, association, cooperative, partnership or corporation to operate tuna purse seine nets with mesh size smaller than 3.5 inches (8.89 cm) at the bag or bunt portion in catching tuna. It shall be unlawful also to trade small tuna caught beyond the bycatch ceiling. Violation of Section 2 of this order shall subject the offender to a fine of from 2,000.00 to 20,000.00 Pesos or imprisonment from six months to two years or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court; the boat captain and the master fisherman may also be subject to the penalties provided; the owner/operator of the commercial fishing vessel who violates this provision shall be subjected to the same penalties; the Department is empowered to impose upon the offender an administrative fine and/or cancel the fishing licence.
- Topoisomerase II-Mediated DNA cleavage by adocia- and xestoquinones from the Philippine sponge Xestospongia sp.Concepcion, Gisela; Foderaro, Tommaso A.; Eldredge, Glenn S.; Lobkovsky, Emil; Clardy, Jon; Barrows, Louis R.; Ireland, Chris M. (American Chemical Society (ACS), 1995-10)Investigation of an orange Xestospongia sp. sponge collected at Cape Bolinao in northern Luzon, Philippines, yielded the known compounds adociaquinones A and B (1, 2) and six new metabolites, secoadociaquinones A and B (3, 4), 14-methoxyxestoquinone (5), 15-methoxyxestoquinone (6), 15-chloro-14-hydroxyxestoquinone (7), and 14-chloro-15-hydroxyxestoquinone (8). All compounds showed inhibition of topoisomerase II in catalytic DNA unwinding and/or decatenation assays. Furthermore, adociaquinone B showed activity in a KSDS assay, suggesting it inhibits the enzyme by freezing the enzyme-DNA cleavable complex. Interestingly, adociaquinone B did not displace ethidium bromide from DNA or unwind supercoiled DNA, implying it does not intercalate DNA.
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 230-1: Series of 2009. Guidelines for the importation and culture of the broodstock and/or postlarvae of specific pathogen free/ specific pathogen resistant (SPF/SPR) black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) and culture of offspring thereof.(Department of Agriculture, 2009-12-03)
- Metabolic responses of the scleractinian coral Porites cylindrica Dana to water motion. I. Oxygen flux studiesRex, Augustus; Montebon, F.; Yap, Helen T. (Elsevier, 1995-03)Nubbins of Porites cylindrica Dana collected from a shallow reef flat in the northwestern Philippines were studied for water motion effects. Specimens were maintained in field and laboratory high (HWM) and low (LWM) water motion setups. The average maintenance times were 93 and 77 days for the field and laboratory study, respectively, which were carried out in tandem. After each maintenance period, oxygen fluxes of the corals were measured with increasing stirring rates in a laboratory flow-through respirometry system under a constant light intensity. Photosynthesis-irradiance (P-I) curves were also determined for the laboratory maintained nubbins as well as for a set of control nubbins which were kept in the collection site for 71 days. In both HWM and LWM corals, maximum rates of net photosynthesis (NP) and respiration (R) were achieved upon increasing stirring rates or turbulence to a certain level, indicating that the boundary layer limiting oxygen diffusion had been reduced to a minimum. The LWM corals attained maximum photosynthetic rates at lower rates of water motion, suggesting greater photosynthetic efficiency at lower levels of turbulence than their HWM counterparts. Profiles of NP and R with increasing stirring rates were consistently depressed for the LWM corals. Significant differences between the HWM and LWM treatments were detected in the NP profiles of the field maintained corals and in the R profiles of the laboratory maintained nubbins. The small yet significant difference in the NP profiles of the field HWM and LWM corals was attributed to the subsaturating irradiance used in the laboratory measurements because P-I curves of the laboratory maintained corals showed a large and significant difference between water motion treatments (HWM > LWM) at higher irradiances. While exhibiting lower photosynthetic rates, LWM corals had proportionally lower respiration rates resulting in P:R values very close to those of the HWM corals. Results suggest that Porites cylindrica is able to maintain its metabolic efficiency despite changes in the water motion regime.