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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Season’s weather drives up prices of fish in Pasil
A shortage in supply caused prices of fish at the Pasil fish market to go up by as much as P40 per kilo yesterday, with market officials saying the prices will stay that way until after the Sinulog.
A kilo of tanguigue now costs P200, or an increase of P40 from last week’s P160, while toloy now costs P50 per kilo from last week’s P20.
Cebu City Acting Market Administrator Elpidio dela Victoria Jr. said that because of the strong winds and big waves brought by the northeast monsoon, very few fishermen go out to sea.
“Wala kaayo’y mananagat musukol sa bawod ug sa kabugnaw. That’s why we expect the price of fish to remain high up to the late part of January when the weather goes back to normal,” he said in a phone interview.
Prices of blue marlin, tuna, squid, katambak, molmol, kitong, danggit, andohaw, bodboron, tulingan, bangus and bolinao also increased by P20 to P30.
Scarce supply
Dela Victoria said commercial fishing vessels prefer to distribute their harvest in Manila, where they can sell the fish at a higher price.
About 70 percent of the fish supplied to Pasil comes from commercial fishing boats.
Meanwhile, the Market Operations Division, which dela Victoria also heads, reported that it confiscated a total of 231 defective weighing scales from the different public markets in the city in the past four months.
Owners of the scales were charged P500 for their “fraudulent act” that violated the City Tax Ordinance.
“The use of defective weighing scales makes consumers lose as much as 200 to 300 grams of the actual weight of their purchase,” dela Victoria said. (LCR)
(December 28, 2005 issue)
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