The Problem and its scope Introduction General Santos City is the largest producer of sashimi-grade tuna in the Philippines. Thus in as early as 1970, the title “Tuna Capital of the Philippines” has become a tag to it. The tuna fishing industry had never been this promising and lucrative since its birth on this side Of the earth-General Santos City. Lying at the head Of the Sarangani Bay, the city has been dubbed the “Boom Town City of the South,” and considered as one ofthe fastest-growing cities in the Philippines.
Had it not been for its strategic geographical location and existence of other menities needed by the fishing industry, General Santos City could not have become South Cotabatds heart of commerce and trade. GenSan also accounts for the second largest daily total catch of fish in the country after Navotas City in the National Capital Region. Locals in the city boast that fishes and seafoods do not come fresher than what is found in the locality.
The fishing industry in GenSan yields a total daily capacity of 750 metric tons of fish catch alone and employs about 7,800 workers. Which is why General Santos City is home to seven (7) tuna processing plants in the country. The Fishport Complex in Barangay Tambler has a 750 metres (2,460 ft) quay and a 300 metres (980 ft) wharf for 2,000 GT reefer carriers. The fishport is equipped with modern facilities that comply with international standards on fish catch handling. Boosted with the signs of prosperity sprouting every”here,” business has never been better,”.
With the advent of the operation of General Santos City Fish Port Complex, post-harvest technology equipment needed to prolong the shelf-life of tuna and other species of fish, are made availTABLE, thus playing a vital role for trading and other post harvest ctivities. The deep sea adult tuna fish catch by handline or longline ranges from 110 to 150 centimeters in size (Aprieto, 1995). As of September of the previous year alone, the total catch has reached a voluminous 5,031, 866 kilos where ‘sashimi” grade adult tuna comprises 35 % or about 1,774,922 kilos.
The locally distributed adult tuna for local consumption ate the largely 65% chunk and distributed to neighboring cities of Davao, Bukidnon, Cagayan de Oro, Surigao, South Cotabato and as far Japan and the LJ. S. , skipjack for canned markets in Europe and North America. The proximity of the city to tuna-rich fishing grounds including the Moro gulf, Sulu Sea, Mindanao Sea and adjacent Celebes Sea which are known centers of tuna abundance, is great advantage. This location is even pleased with fair weather zone which is not normally visited by devastating typhoons or seasonal adverse weather patterns.
Another advantage is the availability of facilities like wharves, canneries and an airport. With these characteristics, the city is truly an ideal base of operation for commercial tuna. Being a component city and centre of commerce and trade in Region XII known as the SOCCSKSARGEN region and owing to its strategic location and world class infrastructure and support facilities, General Santos City plays a very important role in the emergence of SOCCSKSARGEN region as the country’s leading producer of export-quality major commodities.
Statement of the Problem This study aims to explore the changes and problems encountered of General Santos City’s Fishing Industry from past to present. Specifically it aims to answer the following questions: a. How does fishing industry in General Santos City evolve from past to present? b. How can the industry cope up and u pply the demand of its products? c. How they maintain the competitiveness of the products they produce? d. Does the industry enTABLE to upgrade the services they cater? Scope and Delimitation This research study is limited only on the following: 1.
The Setting The setting of this study is at General Santos City Fish port Complex situated at Barangay Tambler, General Santos City. 2. The Respondents Workers is the main respondents together with officers in charge of General Santos City Fish port. 50 out Of 65 (75. 92 %) of the total number of our respondents are workers; 35 of these are male workers and 15 are female orkers. Also, 1 5 out of 65 (23. 08 %) of the total number of the respondents are officers in charge; 10 of these are male with only 5 female officers. 3.
The subject content The research study will focused only to changes and problems encountered of General Santos City’s Fishing Industry from past to present. Definition of Terms The following terms are defined conceptually and operationally for better clarity and understanding ofthe readers. a. Industry – Economic activity concerned With the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories; A particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity. . Capital – The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government; The distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column. . Tuna – Any of various often large scornbroid marine food and game fishes of the genus Thunnus and related genera, many of which, including T. thynnus and the albacore, are commercially important sources of canned fish. Also called tunny- d. port – A town or city with a harbor where ships load or unload. e. Export – is derived from the conceptual meaning as to ship the goods and services out of the port of a country. The seller of such oods and services is referred to as an “exporter” who is based in the country of export whereas the overseas based buyer is referred to as an “importer”.
In International Trade, “exports” refers to selling goods and services produced in the home country to other markets. f. Fishing – the activity of catching fish, either for food or as a sport. g. Economic- is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Chapter 2 Review of Related Literature Navotas – the fishing capital of the Philippines ” is located in the CAMANAVA region of Metro Manila. More than half the people living in this city earn a living through fishing or fishing related ventures.
The reason for this is that numerous waterways including the Navotas River intersect this city. Likewise, this city is sandwiched between the Manila Bay (to its right) and the Laguna Bay (to its left). In the past, Navotas and Malabon used to be one and the same place. Legend says that a narrow strip of Malabon was eaten away by the two seas surrounding it until an opening connecting the two bodies of water was made. It was then that the people in the area decided to rename the strip butas” or “hole” which eventually evolved into the name Navotas.
This place has come a long way since the days of old, and was officially founded as a city last June 24, 2007. As this city is surrounded by bodies of water flooding has always in been a problem in this city especially during the rainy season. However, local authorities are making continuous efforts to try and solve the flood problems the city is suffering from. This is done by investing in floodwater pumping stations and dikes among other methods of flood prevention. This city is always prepared for the worst with funds and emergency methods prepared n case of a typhoon.
Another thing Navotas is known for is its line of products that include patis (fish sauce) and bagoong (shrimp paste). The city heavily relies on the food and fish products it produces to provide means of livelihood for the locals living there. In fact, the city has been developed into a Marine Industrial Estate. This allows local fishermen to make a living by their catch in public markets or to private companies that engage in seafood production and other similar industries. (https://www. navotas. h/) The coastline of the Russian Federation is the fourth longest in the world fter the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, and Indonesia. The Russian fishing industry has an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 7. 6 million km2 including access to twelve seas in three oceans, together with the landlocked Caspian Sea and more than two million rivers. [3] According to the FAO, in 2005 the Russian fishing industry harvested 3,190,946 tonnes of fish from wild fisheries and another 114,752 tonnes from aquaculture. This made Russia the ninth leading producer of fish, with 2. percent of the world total. Fisheries management is regulated by Russian federal laws. The federal law On F-isheries and Protection of Aquatic Biological Resources” of December 2004 (referred to below as the Law on Fisheries) divides fisheries into three main categories” industrial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries of indigenous groups. Industrial fisheries includes coastal fisheries. This definition has been challenged and is under review. The Law On Fisheries requires that total allowTABLE catch (TAC) levels are set for fishery stocks.
It defines these levels as the “scientifically justified annual catch of aquatic biological resources of particular species in a fishing area” However, the Law on Fisheries then goes on to state that industrial fisheries are not necessarily required to base their catch on TAC. The Law does not explain this further, but calls for the federal government to issue a special TAC setting statute. Pacific salmon is the main stock that will probably not have TAC, but will have regulated fishing effort instead. The Law on Fisheries also gives a definition of a fishing unit area and sets general principles for their use.
The compiling of lists of fishing unit areas is delegated to the regional authorities. The Law on Fisheries has gaps and its pplication is criticized by parliamentarians and stakeholders. It may be expected that in the coming years at least two new federal laws, “On Coastal Fisheries” and “On Aquaculture”, will be considered by Russian legislators. Apart from TAC settings, fisheries are also regulated by the so-called Fishing Rules (Pravila rybolovstva). These rules are set separately for different geographical regions.
The Fishing Rules specify seasonal closures, closed areas, restrictions on specific gears such as retracting mesh sizes, minimum catch sizes, and restricted levels of allowTABLE by catch. Fisheries management has been hanging since Soviet times, and further changes are likely. The government has mismanaged the fisheries, with frequent restructuring of the institutions responsible for fishery management and control. Starting in 1 992, the fishery authority has been reorganized at least five times. The head Of the fishery authority was replaced seven times, and not one Of these heads was a fishery professional.
The issues involved in regulating fishing capacity were never really recognized. However, consistent fishery policies are starting to be developed now. The extreme bureaucracy involved for a fishing vessel to make a port call nd land fish results in coastal processing being bypassed, Instead, the seafood is just directly exported, unprocessed. Similarly, there are many bureaucratic difficulties in developing aquaculture. Getting a licence to use water and the necessary sanitary certificates is very time consuming, although it does guarantee environmental and health safety.
There is no legally adopted term in Russia for artisanal fisheries. Artisanal or su bsistence fishing usually refers to fishing mainly with traditional gear, with production delivered to the market but also used for subsistence. In Russia, he term covers also several kinds of fisheries classified as industrial, such as salmon, chars, whitefish, navaga, flounders and greenling fisheries in the Baltic, the Arctic and the Far Eastern Seas. Subsistence fishing by indigenous is also an issue. Indigenous fishers mainly work estuaries, lagoons and rivers (for anadromous fish).
Legally, they are bound to use their catch for local consumption only. They are not allowed to sell their catch, but in reality, this is not always the case. In Russia, poverty contributes to poaching and other threats to fishery resources. Poverty can leave people depending on natural resources to feed hemselves. There may be little perceived incentive to protect fish and other aquatic life and to use them in a sustainTABLE way. Lack of awareness and lack of public involvement in managing local resources can result in poaching, overfishing, and other kinds of illegal activities.
Poaching by private individuals feeds the industrial IIJIJ catch, and forms a vicious cycle. The social impacts of traditional fisheries has rarely been analysed. The yearly fishing cycle still dominates life in the traditional fishing villages of the Pomor, dotted around the coast of the White Sea. Fishing has similarly nfluenced the life style of many indigenous groups, such as among settlers around the Pacific Coast, north of Siberia, and around the big lakes. In the late 1960s, administrative decisions were made to abandon many coastal villages and resettle people in larger settlements.
This has disrupted the traditional ways and is associated with alcohol abuse and increased poverty. There is now a slow movement towards reviving cultural traditions. To succeed, there must also be a re-establishment of the sustainTABLE fisheries that allowed such fishing communities to flourish. Recreational fishing occurs everywhere in Russia. The Fishing Rules do not istinguish recreational fishing from artisan fishing, so both are regulated under the same rules. In some areas, tourist fishing is growing. In 1999, recreational and subsistence fishers took 4,300 tonnes, mostly perches and cyprinids.
Later estimates are not availTABLE. The most significant recreational fishery by value is the Kola Peninsula Atlantic salmon fishery. Chapter 3 Research Design and Methodology This chapter discusses the research design, locale of the study, respondents and sampling used and statistical treatment of data. Research Design The researcher will use the descriptive method of research which is a efinite procedure to characterize, describe, and classify data or materials needed in relevance to the study. It also included proper scrutiny and interpretation of all insights that will be collected.
Su bject of the Study This research will be conducted in General Santos City Fish Port Complex at argy. -rambler, General Santos City. The respondents will be asked in order to validate the data and likewise will be interviewed to validate the “Advocacy campaign” they did to keep their images well and good. Instrumentation In this study, as means of gathering data from the respondents, the esearcher used survey questionnaires, interview methods and gathering statistic ideas about the changes and problems encountered of General Santos City’s Fishing Industry from past to present.
Data Gathering Procedure The researcher will observed the following procedure in data gathering: A. Asking permission to conduct the study. The researcher will write a letter to the administrator of General Santos City Fish Port Complex at Brgy. Tambler, General Santos City B. Analysis and interpretation of data. The researcher will gather and analyzed the data gathered using the appropriate statistical tools. Respondents and Sampling Used The researchers will use a probability sampling procedure in choosing the respondents. Particularly, the simple random sampling using the Slovin’s formula.
