http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/events/detail-events/en/c/1440/

1. DNA MARKER APPLICATIONS IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF FARMED AQUATIC
GENETIC RESOURCES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
Maria Rowena R. Romana-Eguia, PhD.
SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department,
Philippines
FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific. 11-13 Sept 2017, KLCC, Malaysia

2. •FARMED AQUATIC RESOURCES
•aquaculture production
•major commodities
•relationship between fisheries and
aquaculture
•STOCK MANAGEMENT
•assessment via genetic markers (types, uses)
•researches
FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific. 11-13 Sept 2017, KLCC, Malaysia
TALKING POINTS

3. FARMED AQUATIC RESOURCES
Global Aquaculture Production
FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific. 11-13 Sept 2017, KLCC, Malaysia
WORLD production 101,090,700 metric tons
CHINA – top producer with 58,795,300 metric t
ons
12 other countries from SEAsia are top contrib
utors

4. FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific. 11-13 Sept 2017, KLCC, Malaysia
FARMED AQUATIC RESOURCES
Aquaculture Production in SE Asia
Percentage contribution of the fisheries sub-sectors in the
total fisheries production of SE Asia in 2014, by quantity
Aquaculture,
53%
Inland
Capture
Fisheries, 7%
Marine
Capture
Fisheries,
40%
3.03million MT
22.53million MT
16.6million MT

5. FARMED AQUATIC RESOURCES
Aquaculture Production in the SE Asia (esp.
Philippines)
Country Quantity (metric tons) Value
(US$
thousand)
Average value
(US$/metric
tonMariculture Brackishwater
culture
Freshwater
culture
total
Brunei
Darussalam
162 592 7 761 8,884 11,675
Cambodia 7,416 --- 112,639 120,055 --- ---
Indonesia 9,029,843 2,446,031 2,711,250 14,187,124 9,503,444 670
Lao PDR 0 0 90,365 90,355 108,425 1,200
Malaysia 287,980 125,501 110,784 524,565 1,197,902 2,285
Myanmar 59,705 1,845 895,491 957,041 1,857,360 1,940
Philippines 1,820,533 254,692 262,380 2,337,605 2,135,384 915
Singapore 4,252 200 810 5,262 42,756 8,125
Thailand 202,732 279,907 415,124 897,763 2,555,166 2,845
Vietnam 454,100 --- 2,959,200 3,413,300 --- ---
Total 11,866,723 3,109,068 7,558,040 22,533,831 17,409,322 29655
Source: Fishery Statistical Bulletin of Southeast Asia 2014 (SEAFDEC 2016a)

6. FARMED AQUATIC RESOURCES in the Philippines
FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific. 11-13 Sept 2017, KLCC, Malaysia
species quantity (MT) percent (%)
seaweeds 1,566,362 66.71
milkfish 384,425 16,37
tilapia 261,210 11.12
shrimps/prawns 52,124 2.22
others 84,040 3.58
total 2,348,161 100.00
major aquaculture species produced in 2015 *
*BFAR Fisheries Profile (2015)

7. Fisheries Aquaculture
fish biomass for
feeds (fish meal,
fish oil, low
value fish) fish based
aquaculture
biomass
seeds (& escapees)
culture-
based
fisheries
nutrients
seeds,
juveniles
and
broodstock
Source:
Soto et al 2012. Addressing aquaculture-fisheries
interactions through the implementation of
the ecosystem approach to aquaculture
(EAA). In RP Subasinghe, et al (eds).
Farming the waters for people and food.
Proceedings of the Global Conference on
Aquaculture 2010, Phuket, Thailand, 22-25
Sept 2010, pp. 385-436. Rome, FAO and
Bangkok, NACA 896p.
Biophysical linkages between fisheries and aquaculture
Fisheries and aquaculture
are interdependent
FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific. 11-13 Sept 2017, KLCC, Malaysia

13. Methods -

16. SEAFDEC/AQD RESEARCH INITIATIVES that include DNA
MARKER BASED STOCK MANAGEMENT

17. SEAFDEC/AQD RESEARCH INITIATIVES that include
DNA MARKER BASED STOCK MANAGEMENT

18. Allelic richness
wild (10.6) > mixed hatchery (10.6) > Indonesian stock
(10.5) > hatchery (9.5)
Expected Heterozygosity
mixed hatchery (0.68) >Wild (0.67) = hatchery (0.67) >
Indonesian stock (0.66)

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