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Sto. Tomas, La Union Mariculture Zone
 
 
 
  • 220 kilometers away from Manila, 5 hours by land and 30 minutes by air
  • 1 domestic airpot (San Fernando Airport)
  • 1 major seaport (San Fernando Seaport)
  • Serviced by two GSM Network providers
   
 
Sto. Tomas Mariculture Park
Sto. Tomas, La Union
 

Launched - October 17, 2002
Area - 10 Hectares (60 Has. total planned area)
Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 41 s 2001.
Date Enacted - October 10, 2001
ECC No. 0102-0819-0034-0501 (August 19, 2002)

 
STATUS/UPDATES
FEATURES
STATUS/UPDATES
REMARKS
No. of Cages: 10 units
     GI Pipe Square 1-unit (15mx15m) private investor no stock
     GI Pipe Circular 6-units (18m. dia.) private investors stocked with bangus
     PE Pipe Circular 3-units (15m dia.) private investors stocked with bangus
No. of Investors:
     Individual Investors 7  
No. of Technodemo Cages (BFAR)
     GI Pipe Square 4-units (10mx10m) Stocked with pompano, grouper, polyculture of bangus and malaga
     PE Pipe Circular 1-unit (18m dia.) Under repair
No. of Floating Houses: 2 -units (5mx7m) 1-BFAR floating Guard Hous; 1-private investor
Species Cultured:
     Bangus 1,500 pcs (techno-demo project) 589,000 pcs total stocked for 9-unit cages of private investors Harvested last March 18, 2008, 306.g kilos. Two (2) cages were harvested with a total harvest of 47,500 kilos.
     Pompano 2,700 pcs (techno-demo project) 170 kilos partial harvest last April 2008.
     Malaga 1,500 pcs (techno-demo project) Harvested last Mrch 18, 2008
Production (MT)
     2004 270 metric tons Production of the techno-demo and private investors
     2005 540 metric tons Production of the techno-demo and private investors
     2006 32 metric tons Production of the techno-demo project only. Some of the investors cages were totally damaged by typhoon.
     2007 0.14 metric tons Production of the stocks left of the technodemo project that was destroyed by typhoon.
     2008 46.14 metric tons Production as of January -April 2008 of the techno-demo project and private investors.
 
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