Seafood Processing Plant fully loaded until Oct.
THE Seafood Processing Plant, co-owned by the Dagupan city government and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), is now in full blast operation and its products being exported abroad.
The plant, which is under the management of BFAR, is booked for full operation until October and currently processing 30 tons of milkfish set to be exported to South Korea.
About 100 workers from Sitio Korea in Barangay Bonuan Binloc are employed as deboners and processors.
Mayor Belen Fernandez visited the plant last Tuesday, her first since becoming mayor of Dagupan on July 1, and expressed elation that the facility is being maximized and helping the city’s aquaculture industry.
She further urged fish producers to channel part of their produce to the processing plant, which would be an opportunity for them to earn more noting that the price per kilo of milk fish in the market nowadays remains low at P75 per kilo.
Fernandez said the good performance of the plant proves that she and 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia made the right move when they earlier opposed a plan of the past Dagupan City administration to privatize the plant.
RESEARCH
Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the BFAR’s National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center and interim manager of the processing plant, said the facility is also serving as a big boon to research and development of the fishery industry in Pangasinan and northern Luzon.
The processing plant was bankrolled entirely by the Korean government with the Dagupan City government providing the site.
The project was initiated by former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and former Dagupan Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.
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