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siganid

(sɪˈɡænɪd)
n
(Animals) a tropical fish in the family Siganidae
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The seaweed farms have become a nursery of siganid fish, krills, anchovy, squids and lobster eggs.
The dead danggit (siganid, or Siganus corallinus), were fingerlings, each measuring about 3 inches, he said.
The shoal probably teems with my favorite saltwater fish from Pangasinan, the malaga, a delectable variety of samaral or siganid.
While cultivable finfish include Milkfish (Bangus), Siganid (Danggit), Grouper (Lapu- Lapu), Sea Bass (Apahap), Parrot Fishes (Mulmul), Stone Fish (Loppoh), Squid, Octopus, and tropical aquarium fishes.
(2006) showed that the presence of commercially valued marine species such as seabass, snapper and siganid affect the growth of luminous bacteria in shrimp culture water.
However, the better CI observed in fish reared in 15 ppt CSW reinforces the aforementioned hypothesis that the [K.SUP.+] added to the water was a necessary but not sufficient supplement for ISWW to become conducive to good siganid growth.
schmideliana in the Indian Ocean (Yamaguchi 1977b) and five species of siganid fish have distributions centered on the Pacific Ocean, each with a sibling species occurring in the Indian Ocean and an area of overlap in the Indo-Malay region (Woodland 1983).
On Wednesday, Rosario said fish in the wild, such as mallet, goby, siganid, groupers and shrimps, were found floating in the channel.
The forum will focus on fishery, mariculture and ornamental fishery products such as mangrove crabs, milkfish, saline tilapia and siganid. AMAS will also discuss how agribusinesses can avail of the various financing programs for the fisheries sector.
Others followed suit, including Palisoc and his wife, Lily, who own JE's Bagoong Products, which now packages other items such as sauteed shrimp fry ("ginisang alamang"), fish sauce ("patis") and siganid ("padas").