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- 2 Pinoy fishery experts honoredVisperas, Eva (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2015-12-18)Two Filipino fishery experts were honored yesterday in the Giant Steps, similar to the Walk of Fame in Hollywood to immortalize movie stars. Honored were Wilfredo Yap, who conceptualized the Mariculture Park System for sustainable aquaculture in the sea, and Catalino de la Cruz, pioneering expert on aquaculture engineering and integrated agri-aqua farming. The Society of Aquaculture Engineers of the Philippines (SAEP) honored them at the Asian Fisheries Academy (AFA) in Dagupan City.
- BFAR destroys infected white shrimpsVisperas, Eva (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2005-04-12)About 1,100 pieces of imported white shrimps known as "Peneaus vannamei," costing $35 each, will be "destroyed" today, following a recommendation by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC) to Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Director Malcolm Sarmiento. The shrimps, which were imported from Hawaii and cultured at the BFAR office, were found infected with a disease. Several groups from the media and the SEAFDEC were invited to witness the destruction of the shrimps. But, Westly Rosario, the BFAR center chief here, belied reports that that the disease found in these breeders was the deadly Taura syndrome virus, a kind of prawn disease initially found among shrimps in the Ecuador river in 1992.
- BFAR working to modernize, boost PH shellfish industryRiñoza, Jojo (Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, 2017-10-19)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is working on the modernization of the shellfish industry, BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development Center chief Dr. Westly Rosario said. “The ‘Shellfish Industry Development Project aims to put the shellfish production to an industrialized level, which has been neglected for so many years,” Rosario said. He rued that since 1931, when the country’s shellfish production took off, farming methods have remained the same.