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                    [ArticleID] => 571165
                    [Title] => Mariculture can mitigate effects of El Niño
                    [Summary] => 

El Niño has dried up farmlands, reservoirs and waterways all over the country, forcing farmers to find other ways to adapt and survive. Even lakes and ponds have also been left parched from the heat.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 541808 [Title] => Fisheries sector seen to grow 5-7% this year [Summary] =>

The fisheries sector is expected to grow by five to seven percent this year, a slight improvement over the projected three-percent growth for 2009.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 534375 [Title] => DA-7 to set up mariculture parks [Summary] =>

The government, through the Department of Agriculture (DA) is going to set up mariculture parks in the Visayas in order to arrest the problem of depleting marine species due to over-fishing.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 442857 [Title] => BFAR opens Mariculture zone to investors [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource (BFAR) Central Visayas is currently marketing its P2.5 million Mariculture Zone project aimed at providing business opportunities to Filipinos and even foreign investors alike.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097553 [AuthorName] => Rhia de Pablo [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 11980 [Title] => DA to establish 195-ha mariculture park [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 4128 [Title] => BFAR seeks export zone status for mariculture parks [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360711 [Title] => 31 new mariculture parks to be launched [Summary] => The country’s fish production is getting a huge boost with the earmarking of P86.6 million for the launch of 31 new community-based mariculture parks, Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte, chairman of the House committee on fisheries and aquaculture, said.

The fresh funding, contained in the 2007 national budget, would enable the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to eventually double to 62 the number of mariculture parks in municipal waters countrywide, Villafuerte said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360855 [Title] => 31 new mariculture parks to be launched [Summary] => The country’s fish production is getting a huge boost with the earmarking of P86.6 million for the launch of 31 new community-based mariculture parks, Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte, chairman of the House committee on fisheries and aquaculture, said.

The fresh funding, contained in the 2007 national budget, would enable the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to eventually double to 62 the number of mariculture parks in municipal waters countrywide, Villafuerte said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347659 [Title] => BFAR drafts blueprint for mariculture highways [Summary] => The Philippines is eyeing to become a major player in the multi-billion dollar live-food-fish export business by establishing two mariculture highways that will link the network of mariculture parks (MPs) already set up all over the country, said Director Malcolm I. Sarmiento Jr. of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279567 [Title] => 18 mariculture parks established so far [Summary] => Eighteen mariculture park and zones have been established in various parts of the country.

Ten are now fully operational, while the others are in various stages of development, according to Nelson Lopez, chief of the Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR).

Lopez said most commonly raised in fish cages in the mariculture parks are milkfish and grouper (lapu-lapu). Other marine species of commercial value are also being grown.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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