BINMALEY’S TOURISM TREAT

 

BINMALEY–It’s time for this town, known as the Fish Bowl of Pangasinan, to take center stage.
The first-ever “Bingalo tan Malaga” (prawns and siganid) festival will be staged during the town fiesta celebration on February 2.
Municipal Councilor Leo Urmaza who heads the festival committee said this will   further enhance the town’s business potentials as the event aims to inform the people that the town produces the greatest volume of (tiger) prawns and malaga in the province.
But unlike Dagupan City which staged its longest grill featuring its famous product bangus (milkfish) for a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the longest grill category and Villasis town which had its recent talong (eggplant)grill festival during its town fiesta celebration earlier this month, Binmaley’s festival will be  highlighted by a dinner-for-a-cause with sugpo locally known as “bingalo” and “malaga” as the main courses cooked in various ways.
At P500 per plate, the ticket holder will have a sumptuous dinner at the auditorium followed by a ballroom dancing. About 1,000 tickets were already sold.
Street dancing to be performed by the town employees will precede the dinner event, wearing costumes depicting sugpo and Malaga. According to Urmaza, the amount that will be raised will be used to augment fund for the construction of a balikbayan park.
It was Urmaza’s late father who pioneered malaga culture here  that eventually earned for him the Most Outstanding Fishfarmer award in the country.
Mayor Simplicio Rosario said that unknown to many, this town has the  biggest fishpond area in terms of hectarage in the whole province.
Fernando Ferrer, municipal agriculturist, said that there are 791.17 hectares involving 438 fishfarmers who are into sugpo culture here.
The town yields an estimated annual production of 565 metric tons involving two harvests. The peak months are from November to April.
He added that the prawns that the fishfarmers produce here are exported to foreign countries and are also sold in Bulacan, Metro Manila and other nearby  provinces while some are exported.–EVA

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