PCAMRD concludes seabass culture school-on-the-air

Additional income wasn't too knotty among those who signed up as listener-enrollees and learned how to culture apahap or seabass through the recent Fisheries School-on-the-Air program of the Department of Science and Technology's Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development.

“Tayo'y Mag-Alaga ng Apahap” is a ten-lesson module aired Sundays 3:00-5:00 PM last July 18 until September 19 over DZMM (630 AM) program Bago ‘Yan, Ah!  

The modules focused on the market prospects of seabass, transport of fingerlings, pond and cage culture, and polyculture.  Topics on feeds and feeding management, disease prevention and control, harvesting, transport, and marketing were covered.  

The program aimed to increase awareness of listeners on fisheries technologies, encourage people to venture into seabass production, and help existing seabass culturists to become more efficient and responsible to sustain the industry.  

Seabass or apahap is a high value commercial fish that lives in coastal waters, estuaries, and lagoons.  It grows in freshwater and brackishwater and can be cultured in ponds, coastal impoundments, cages, and tanks. 

 “Tayo'y Mag-Alaga ng Apahap” was the 10th school-on-the-air program of PCAMRD, also known as the “Water and Fish R&D Center”.  PCAMRD coordinates the country's aquatic resources R&D programs.  The on-air program was made possible through the sponsorship of Tateh Aqua Feeds and with support from the ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc. and the Philippine Foundation of Rural Broadcasters.