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The Pasil Fish Market is a major fish market located in Barangay Suba, Cebu City, Philippines. [1] Established in 1921, the market is a major market for fresh fish sourced throughout the seas of Visayas, such as Visayan Sea , Samar Sea , Camotes Sea , and Bohol Strait , among others.
Of fish ponds being leased from the government, the majority are leased by individuals with addresses in different locations to those of their fish ponds. Almost all freshwater fishponds are privately owned. [16] Fish pond land can be leased from the government for a minimum of 25 years and a maximum of 50 years under the Fisheries Code of 1998.
The Philippines lies within the Coral Triangle, and one area, the Verde Island Passage, has the world's highest recorded diversity of marine species. [5]: 8 Reef fish provide between 15 and 30% of municipal fisheries catch, [6]: 65 with some islands relying on reefs for as much as 70% of their catch.
A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products. It can be dedicated to wholesale trade between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both. Retail fish markets, a type of wet market, often sell street food as well.
[2]: 15 Reef fish provide between 15% and 30% of municipal fisheries catch, [8]: 65 with some islands relying on reefs for as much as 70% of their catch. [9]: 136 There are 19 seagrass species, with seagrass meadows covering up to 24% of territorial waters.
A basnig boat: a bangka equipped with lift nets. Commercial fishing boats are defined through the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (RA 8550), [1] which defines fishing scale by boat size: 3.1 to 20 gross tonnes as small-scale, 20.1 to 150 gross tonnes as medium-scale, and anything larger as large-scale. [2]
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The live fish trade is only growing, in 1994 the Philippines exported 200,000 kg of live fish; by 2004 the Philippines were annually exporting 800,000 kg annually. [11] Although Asian markets are the primary buyers of live reef fish for food, the recently created U.S. Coral Reef Task Force has concluded that the U.S. is the primary purchaser of ...