In the recent years, a benchmark in stock assessment is currently gaining popularity – SPR or Spawning Potential Ratio. Often just referred to as SPR, this method has been developed for data-poor fisheries, wherein few data (sometimes none) are available other than a representative sample of the size structure of the vulnerable portion of the […]
August 5, 2016 – PACPI, Gibeon Consultancy Services (GCS), LGU of Bantayan and Madridejos and BFAR 7 signed the Memorandum of Understanding to implement species-specific assessment of blue swimming crab using the Length-Based Spawning Potential Ration (LB-SPR) in Bantayan Island, Central Visayas. Following the success of the pilot SPR assessment in Danajon Bank in Bohol, […]
July 29, 2016- The National Fisheries Institute Crab Council hosted a two-day consultation-workshop for blue swimming crab FIP managers from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Co-sponsored by Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch, the activity aimed to provide a venue to review ongoing sustainability projects in each country and identify challenges […]
July 24, 2016 – PACPI, in collaboration with Province of Negros has been conducting series of reseeding activities as part of its stock enhancement program that started in 2010. At least 10 fisherfolk communities have been recipients of these on-going enhancement efforts since it started in May this year. Among them are E.B. Magalona, Manapla […]
July 7, 2016 – BFAR 7, headed by Dir. Andres M. Bojos turned over 3,000 bamboo crab pots to fishermen in Talibon and Inabanga, Bohol, a year after SPR stock assessment in Danajon Bank was concluded. Last year, PACPI and ECOFISH sought help from BFAR to discourage (and eventually phase out) the use of lift […]
Last February 22, 2016, the USAID-ECOFISH presented the results of the value chain analysis of blue crabs in Danajon Bank in Bohol to provide information on the current economic position of the fishery in the area. A commercially-important fishery commodity, the blue swimming crab is a major source of livelihood in Bohol province. Danajon crabs, […]
