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- Dagupan’s ‘Bangus King’ leads way for othersSotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc., 2013-02-09)If there is someone who deserves to be called “Bangus King” here, it is Eduardo Maramba, who belongs to four generations of milkfish growers. “My great grandfather, Franciso, my grandfather, Cipriano, and my father, Rufino, were all engaged in bangus culture, but it is only during my time when the industry blossomed into its present state,” says Maramba, 58, who owns 8 hectares of fishpond in this city, 5 ha in Alaminos City and 12 fish cages also in Alaminos. Maramba, who is accredited by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources’ Ilocos office as a fish grower, saw how the industry grew. He started helping his father tend the family’s fishpond when he was 12 years old.
- RP aquaculture sector benefits from BFAR-SEAFDEC programFernandez, Rudy A. (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2002-06-02)The country's aquaculture sector continues to benefit considerably from a program jointly being implemented by a government agency and a Southeast Asian center. Called Joint Mission for Accelerated Nationwide Technology Transfer Program (JMANTTP), the undertaking was launched in January 1999 by the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo. The program was convinced to make available technologies developed at SEAFDEC AQD to its host country, the Philippines.
- Pangasinan aquaculture practices wow US studentsVisperas, Eva (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2019-02-06)Students of the University of Rhode Island arrived in Pangasinan on New Year’s eve for their 20-day study of the best aquaculture practices in various coastal areas of the province and got wowed. From going to the rivers, the 10 students led by their professor Michael Rice experienced demonstration and did hands-on sex determination/cannulation of milkfish breeders and feed preparation/enrichment at the Philippine Bangus Center, seining milkfish broodstock from a maturation pond at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources center, all in this city. At the BFAR center, the students also had the opportunity to harvet bangus and saltwater tilapia from ponds.