SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department

The SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department Igang Marine Station is an aquaculture research and demonstration facility located in Barangay Igang, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras. Established in the 1970s as part of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, it serves as a center for mariculture research on milkfish, grouper and other species. The station features broodstock tanks, hatcheries, floating cages and coastal laboratories open for educational tours.

Visitors can expect a working coastal research station with outdoor tanks, hatchery and laboratory buildings, and floating fish cages in the sea. Guided educational tours explain broodstock management, larval rearing and cage culture operations. The setting is coastal with views of the Guimaras Strait, mangrove areas and aquaculture facilities. Access is primarily through organized tours of demonstration ponds, hatcheries and cage sites.