Live Fish Transport Technology
February 20th, 2008 
Lito
One of the outstanding discovery of an innovator, Bonifacio Comandante Jr. have contributed much on the fishing industry. Imagine, how can you transport live fish without water? It’s impossible because just taking a fish out of water with only a few hours it will surely be dead. But not to Boni, because he have this technology of making the fish sleep or hibernate for 24 hours without water. Not only will it save on transportation cost but the survival rate is also astounding 95 to 97.5% because the fish is not stressed during transport. Compared to the conventional way, when the fish is awake, it is prone to shock specially in a rough ride. Not only will it increase the shipping cost, it will also have high mortality rate.
This technology is discovered by Boni by accident while experimenting on the sex reversals of groupers (lapu-lapu). He discovered the secret of fish hibernation in 1987 when he unintentionally left some fish in the ice bucket and found them still alive the next day. He then developed this technology and made it the basis of his masteral thesis in coastal resource management at Siliman University in Dumaguete City. The technology is now being used by fish growers in the Philippines to export live edible fish and crustacean like the groupers, prawns, white shrimp and ornamental fishes.
It’s amazing to think that there are many scientist specially in some industrialized countries that didn’t discover this technology although they are equipped and well funded. But from a third world country it was discovered by accident. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t sell short our ingenuity because there are many discoveries and inventions that our fellow ‘kababayan’ (countrymen) have already contributed to society like the fluorescent lamp, perpetual oil and many others that I already forgotten. Truly God works in mysterious ways.
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