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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Davao fish port source of sashimi grade tuna
THE Davao Fish Port Complex (DFPC) in Daliao, Toril is the nearest port where sashimi grade tuna fished along the Southwestern Pacific are offloaded for shipment to the auction market.
DFPC general manager Mario Malinao said sashimi grade tuna are fished along that area from the month of July to December.
The DFPC being a transshipment port aside from its proximity to the fishing site is advantageous because of several flights that transported the fish fresh to the auction market.
"Hindi frozen kundi fresh ang tuna that will be delivered to the auction market in Osaka, Fukuka and Tokyo in Japan, Vancouver in Canada and the US," he said.
The tuna offloaded by foreign fishing vessels are caught from international waters in the Southwest Pacific high seas, and/or from Celebes Sea, for direct transshipment to Japan and/or US, and/or the EU. He said the vessels come mainly from Taiwan and have obtained fishing rights from Indonesia and/or Micronesia and other Southwest Pacific states.
He said there are about 200 accredited foreign fishing vessels from Taiwan by the Philippine Fisheries Management Development Authority (PFMDA) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Bfar).
After the offloaded catch are sorted and graded, whole fish of sashimi grade (Class AA, A+, and A) are enplaned directly out of the Philippines.
Malinao also said that they are expecting 30 long line vessels each from Sri Lanka and Vietnam to the call the port at DFPC.
Malinao said they had been expecting them since last year but hopefully they will come within the year.
An additional foreign vessels call the DFPC would increase of the volume of tuna for offloading in the Davao fish port, he said.
He said the daily offloading of tuna on the average is at 13.5 tons and the projected income this year is at P35 million. The income last year was pegged at P25 million.
He added that total volume offloaded last year was at 5,000 metric tons and the average offloading per vessel was at 5,000 tons.
Malinao however said that of the eight fish port in the Philippines, three are in Mindanao with one each in the cities of Davao, General Santos and Zamboanga.
Although the DFPC is the smallest in terms of area among the Mindanao fish ports, the DPFC is the only transshipment port in the country.
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