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Tinian Mayor’s Office, NMC-CREES staff attend abalone training in RP
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Posted on Mar 03 2009
Tinian Mayor’s Office staff, together with NMC-CREES traveled to Tigbauan, Iloilo, in central Philippines to attend the specialized training on Abalone (H. asinine) Nursery and Grow-out Culture and Seaweed (Gracilaria) Farming.
Paticipants from Tinian were Mayor Jose P. San Nicolas, Thomas A. Fleming, John T. King, Thomas B. Mendiola, Michael H. Lizama and Richard S. Lazaro. Director Ross Manglona and Michael Ogo from NMC CREES were also present at the training, which was held from Feb. 14 to 24, 2009.
The weeklong abalone training took place at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department in Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines. Specialized doctors from different fields of aquaculture trained the CNMI participants in the following fields:
* Hatchery, nursery, and grow-out culture of the tropical abalone;
* Seaweed Farming;
* Hatchery operation: egg collection, counting, incubation, monitoring of larval development;
* Harvest, counting of veliger larvae for stocking;
* Post larval rearing, Preparation of diatom slurry and feeding;
* Financial Feasibility and market potential;
* Sorting and packing of abalone juveniles for transport;
* Stocking and feeding of juveniles in cages;
* Sampling of abalone in grow-out cages; and
* Monitoring and feeding of abalone in cages.
The workshop was composed of both lectures and hands on training. The trainees from Tinian experienced the actual process of raising abalone from the larvae stage to harvest. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
