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                    [Title] => Phl resumes export of vannamei shrimp
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The Philippines has resumed the exportation of vannamei (white shimp) after diseases that plagued the industry more than 15 years ago closed opportunities to growers.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 20514 [Title] => DA accredits 4 hatcheries to produce Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 393580 [Title] => Yap orders BFAR to speed up shrimp hatcheries‘ accreditation [Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap will order the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to speed up the accreditation of more P.vannamei hatcheries to meet the increasing demand for safe and viable broodstock.

Yap is responding to the call of local shrimp growers to accredit more shrimp hatcheries from the current three accredited hatcheries.

At the same time, Yap assured that the Department of Agriculture and the BFAR are not ignoring biosecurity concerns of local shrimp growers.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 375434 [Title] => DA lifts ban on Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture is all set to amend Fisheries Administrative Order 207, which prohibits the importation and culture of live shrimps and prawns at all stages, effectively lifting the ban on the importation of the Pacific white shrimp or Peneaus vannamei broodstocks and the culture of this exotic shrimp in the country.

The decision for the lifting of the ban came about after encouraging reports and field verification of the successful conduct of breeding and grow-out experiments on the exotic shrimp by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). [DatePublished] => 2006-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356069 [Title] => Ex-politician finds ‘pot of gold’ [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — From his humble beginnings as a provincial board member of Bulacan, Teofilo "Jun" Rivera is now known as "Mr. Vannamei," a nickname made popular by the species of prawn he produces which he described as a "pot of gold."

Rivera became famous in his effort to raise the Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei in his eight-hectare fishpond farm in Cabangan, Zambales two years ago.

His efforts paid off. Now he is the president of the White Shrimp Growers Association, a Luzon-wide group with 33 accredited P. vannamei growers. [DatePublished] => 2006-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 344442 [Title] => Successful Dagupan culture gives hope to shrimp growers [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Once controversial, the Pacific white shrimp or Peneaus vannamei is giving hope to revive the country’s moribund shrimp industry.

Inspired by the success of the experimental breeding of P. vannamei at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Bonuan Binloc this city, shrimp growers in the Visayas and Mindanao now want to adopt the technology to revitalize the shrimp industry.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342179 [Title] => A black or white choice [Summary] => With export manufacturing capabilities and competitiveness continuously diminishing, the agricultural sector has to beef up its contribution to the economy and increase its export revenue contributions. We cannot merely rely on overseas Filipino workers’ earnings to keep our economy afloat.

But as the agricultural sector struggles to gain a share of the expanding regional market, it is faced with various issues and conflicting choices. Take for instance the local prawn industry. It is now on a bumpy road, and needs to decide quickly how to get back on the right track.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311797 [Title] => ‘P. vannamei’ culture seen to revive RP shrimp industry [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — The culture of the white shrimp species called Penaeus vannamei would double shrimp production in the country, the director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said.

"This is what we need to revive the almost dead shrimp industry," BFAR head Malcolm Sarmiento Jr. told local newsmen during a seminar-workshop on the culture of P. vannamei and the formal launching and accreditation program for its growers at the BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) here last Saturday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303189 [Title] => Small fishermen buck commercialization of Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => Small fisherfolk groups are opposing government’s plan to allow the commercialization of the exotic vannamei or Pacific white shrimp specie, saying this would worsen environmental destruction and result in the economic displacement of marginal fisherfolk.

Pablo Rosales, national chairman of the Progresibong Alyansa ng Mangingisda sa Pilipinas (Pangisda), said that commercial production would destroy diminishing mangrove areas, which are the sources of wild fish that small-scale fishers and their families depend on for food and income.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302737 [Title] => BFAR exec sees hope for RP shrimp industry [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — There is hope in reviving the county’s gasping shrimp industry.

This, as the second batch of broodstock of the once controversial vannamei (Pacific white shrimps) brought to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Bonuan Binloc here was given a "clean bill of health" by the Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC).
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Phl resumes export of vannamei shrimp
                    [Summary] => 

The Philippines has resumed the exportation of vannamei (white shimp) after diseases that plagued the industry more than 15 years ago closed opportunities to growers.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 20514 [Title] => DA accredits 4 hatcheries to produce Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 393580 [Title] => Yap orders BFAR to speed up shrimp hatcheries‘ accreditation [Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap will order the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to speed up the accreditation of more P.vannamei hatcheries to meet the increasing demand for safe and viable broodstock.

Yap is responding to the call of local shrimp growers to accredit more shrimp hatcheries from the current three accredited hatcheries.

At the same time, Yap assured that the Department of Agriculture and the BFAR are not ignoring biosecurity concerns of local shrimp growers.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 375434 [Title] => DA lifts ban on Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture is all set to amend Fisheries Administrative Order 207, which prohibits the importation and culture of live shrimps and prawns at all stages, effectively lifting the ban on the importation of the Pacific white shrimp or Peneaus vannamei broodstocks and the culture of this exotic shrimp in the country.

The decision for the lifting of the ban came about after encouraging reports and field verification of the successful conduct of breeding and grow-out experiments on the exotic shrimp by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). [DatePublished] => 2006-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356069 [Title] => Ex-politician finds ‘pot of gold’ [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — From his humble beginnings as a provincial board member of Bulacan, Teofilo "Jun" Rivera is now known as "Mr. Vannamei," a nickname made popular by the species of prawn he produces which he described as a "pot of gold."

Rivera became famous in his effort to raise the Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei in his eight-hectare fishpond farm in Cabangan, Zambales two years ago.

His efforts paid off. Now he is the president of the White Shrimp Growers Association, a Luzon-wide group with 33 accredited P. vannamei growers. [DatePublished] => 2006-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 344442 [Title] => Successful Dagupan culture gives hope to shrimp growers [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Once controversial, the Pacific white shrimp or Peneaus vannamei is giving hope to revive the country’s moribund shrimp industry.

Inspired by the success of the experimental breeding of P. vannamei at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Bonuan Binloc this city, shrimp growers in the Visayas and Mindanao now want to adopt the technology to revitalize the shrimp industry.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342179 [Title] => A black or white choice [Summary] => With export manufacturing capabilities and competitiveness continuously diminishing, the agricultural sector has to beef up its contribution to the economy and increase its export revenue contributions. We cannot merely rely on overseas Filipino workers’ earnings to keep our economy afloat.

But as the agricultural sector struggles to gain a share of the expanding regional market, it is faced with various issues and conflicting choices. Take for instance the local prawn industry. It is now on a bumpy road, and needs to decide quickly how to get back on the right track.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311797 [Title] => ‘P. vannamei’ culture seen to revive RP shrimp industry [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — The culture of the white shrimp species called Penaeus vannamei would double shrimp production in the country, the director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said.

"This is what we need to revive the almost dead shrimp industry," BFAR head Malcolm Sarmiento Jr. told local newsmen during a seminar-workshop on the culture of P. vannamei and the formal launching and accreditation program for its growers at the BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) here last Saturday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303189 [Title] => Small fishermen buck commercialization of Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => Small fisherfolk groups are opposing government’s plan to allow the commercialization of the exotic vannamei or Pacific white shrimp specie, saying this would worsen environmental destruction and result in the economic displacement of marginal fisherfolk.

Pablo Rosales, national chairman of the Progresibong Alyansa ng Mangingisda sa Pilipinas (Pangisda), said that commercial production would destroy diminishing mangrove areas, which are the sources of wild fish that small-scale fishers and their families depend on for food and income.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302737 [Title] => BFAR exec sees hope for RP shrimp industry [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — There is hope in reviving the county’s gasping shrimp industry.

This, as the second batch of broodstock of the once controversial vannamei (Pacific white shrimps) brought to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Bonuan Binloc here was given a "clean bill of health" by the Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC).
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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