By
Mary May A. Abellon
DIPOLOG CITY – Bottled sardines manufacturers and processors as well as dried fish
suppliers were gathered at the Top Plaza Hotel here Wednesday for a forum
organized by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for the fish and fish
products cluster.
Assistant Regional
Director Joseph Florig of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
(BFAR)-9 presented to the participants the benefits from selling fresh fish
rather than dried fish.
Florig also asked the fish
industry stakeholders not to catch small white sardinella locally known as
“tamban” fish explaining that the fish vendors could have more supply if they
would wait for the right time.
In the same
gathering, industry cluster regional coordinator Engr. Rolando G. Acuna
presented the 2015 Industry Cluster Development Plan 2015.
He also
said: “DTI plans to conduct personal financial literacy and management seminar
workshop for the stakeholders in fish industry and that part of the development
plan is the creation and administration of a facebook page in order to
advertise and market their fish products.”
Moreover,
the action plan also provides the stakeholders with strategies and policies as
well as access to finance and market to improve productivity and efficiency,
and to strengthen the business management.
“The
government is here to finance your trainings and seminars, all you have to do
is to sit down, absorb, internalize, adopt and put into practice what you have
learned,” Acuna stressed.
