Environment-friendly shrimp farming

Abstract

SEAFDEC convened the Mangrove-Friendly Shrimp Culture Planning Workshop at Days Hotel in Iloilo City from 12 to 13 May 2000. The planning workshop reviewed the status of mangrove-friendly shrimp culture technologies in Southeast Asia, and finalized the research, demonstration and extension components of the subproject on shrimp under SEAFDECASEAN's Mangrove-friendly Aquaculture Program. The technologies developed by the project (with funding assistance from the Government of Japan) will be promoted within the ASEAN membercountries.It was attended by 37 representatives from Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and as well as SEAFDEC officials and researchers.