Seafood plant awaits manual for full operations
AFTER a test-run for several days, the P110-million Korea-Philippines Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan has temporarily stopped operations until the operational manual is completed.
Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center under the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and appointed as interim manager of the seafood facility, said the operational manual is necessary to ensure that the plant will perform according to its actual capacity and standards.
Rosario said the initial test runs of the facility enabled them to observe the efficiency of the plant’s machineries and provided them with valuable inputs to be incorporated in the manual.
He added that running the plant by the book will ensure that unnecessary breakdowns will be avoided.
Prepared by experts from BFAR, the operations manual is now almost ready and would soon be presented to the stakeholders in Dagupan and Pangasinan for approval, said Rosario.
The operational manual will also be adopted as a model for a similar plant set to be built by the facility’s benefactor, the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), in Iloilo City.
Meanwhile, Rosario said the plant could also be used by exporters of processed meat, but they will have to conform with the standards set under the operations manual.—LM
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