Lifting of breeding ban on white shrimp sought
The Philippine Shimp Industry Inc. yesterday called for the lifting of the ban on the breeding and culture of Litopeneaus vannamei or white shrimp, an exotic species believed to hasten the industry's goal to increase shimp production.
PHILSHRIMP president Roberto Gatuslao told the DAILY STAR that representatives from all sectors of the shrimp industry across the country, including hatchery operators and feed millers, supported the resolution calling for the Department of Agriculture's approval for the culture of white shrimp in the country.
We are asking the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to facilitate the lifting of the ban, he said at the conclusion of the 5th National Shrimp Congress in Bacolod yesterday.
BFAR, headed by Director Malcolm Sarmiento, had recommended the local breeding and culture of white shrimp after research on hatchery and grow-out conducted in farms in Pangasinan and Zambales yielded positive results as presented by Interim Executive Director Westly Rosario of the National Fisheries Research Development Institute at the Congress.
This will enable us to produce more shrimps, Gatuslao said.
He said that the industry continues to search for established technologies designed to promote better production with consideration on resources conservation, and new markets to sustain and enhance its growth to augment income of farmers, traders, exporters, processors and feed millers.
Sarmiento said on Wednesday that years after the ban on L. vannamei in the country, Agriculture Secretary Artemio Panganiban had made the "big, bold move" of allowing experts to proceed on the research on white shrimp culture. BFAR is adapting a five-year development plan for the shrimp industry that will be implemented from 2006 to 2010 to achieve higher production
Sarmiento said that the shrimp development plan and the culture of L. vannamei are two the components that will bring profitability, sustainability and global competitiveness in the shrimp industry. DA has created a Shrimp Task Force and is implementing a comprehensive action plan to control diseases like the White Spot Syndrome Virus.
The agency has also intensified training and extension operations and now have established standards in bacteriology, fry quality assessment, and water and soil quality.*NLG - Daily Star
PHILSHRIMP president Roberto Gatuslao told the DAILY STAR that representatives from all sectors of the shrimp industry across the country, including hatchery operators and feed millers, supported the resolution calling for the Department of Agriculture's approval for the culture of white shrimp in the country.
We are asking the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to facilitate the lifting of the ban, he said at the conclusion of the 5th National Shrimp Congress in Bacolod yesterday.
BFAR, headed by Director Malcolm Sarmiento, had recommended the local breeding and culture of white shrimp after research on hatchery and grow-out conducted in farms in Pangasinan and Zambales yielded positive results as presented by Interim Executive Director Westly Rosario of the National Fisheries Research Development Institute at the Congress.
This will enable us to produce more shrimps, Gatuslao said.
He said that the industry continues to search for established technologies designed to promote better production with consideration on resources conservation, and new markets to sustain and enhance its growth to augment income of farmers, traders, exporters, processors and feed millers.
Sarmiento said on Wednesday that years after the ban on L. vannamei in the country, Agriculture Secretary Artemio Panganiban had made the "big, bold move" of allowing experts to proceed on the research on white shrimp culture. BFAR is adapting a five-year development plan for the shrimp industry that will be implemented from 2006 to 2010 to achieve higher production
Sarmiento said that the shrimp development plan and the culture of L. vannamei are two the components that will bring profitability, sustainability and global competitiveness in the shrimp industry. DA has created a Shrimp Task Force and is implementing a comprehensive action plan to control diseases like the White Spot Syndrome Virus.
The agency has also intensified training and extension operations and now have established standards in bacteriology, fry quality assessment, and water and soil quality.*NLG - Daily Star
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