The FishPond – Aqua Culture Farm in EB Magalona

Aqua Culture Farm, Negros Occidental

The Fish Ponds

Before the 80s prawn farming had already started in the Philippines, but the real boom in production began in the mid-1980s, as prominent families in the Negros Province began converting their sugar plantations into ponds. They saw shrimp farming as a more profitable alternative to sugar. These ponds are now being used for Milk Fish, Tilapia and Vannamei Shrimp farming.

What we produce?

Farm Produce

BANGUS (Milk Fish)

Bangus is the national fish of Philippines, called milkfish in English. It is an adaptable, tough, and sturdy fish that can survive in confined spaces, so it is regularly bred on fish farms, which is the reason why it is widely available all over the Philippines.

TILAPIA (St. Peter’s Fish)

Tilapia are the most cultured freshwater fish in the Philippines and they are listed second in culture volume after milkfish. Until the early 1990’s the Philippines was the globally the top producer of tilapia and most of it was produced for domestic consumption.

PRAWNS & SHRIMPS

Prawns are larger in size, and have larger legs with claws on three pairs. They have branching gills. Shrimp are smaller, have shorter legs and have claws only on two pairs.

ALIMANGO (Mud Crab)

Mangrove crabs (Scylla spp.) or mud crabs, locally known as “Alimango,” inhabit muddy and sandy bottom in brackishwater and marine environments.

TALABA (Oyster)

Farmed oysters live and grow in the same open waters as wild oysters. What’s cool about oyster aquaculture is that the oysters are farmed in their natural habitat.

Gallery

Farm Views

Some photos from our fish ponds located at Enrique B. Magalona (Saravia), Negros Occidental