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- Galunggong price up by P40 per kiloCariaso, Bella (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2024-05-31)The retail price of galunggong or round scad nationwide has increased by P40 per kilo due to the effects of Typhoon Aghon, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. BFAR spokesman Nasser Briguera, citing initial reports, said the typhoon left P1 million worth of galunggong damaged.
- Import permits suspended for galunggong, mackerelJose, Ashley Erika O. (BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation, 2022-12-15)The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it has suspended the issuance of sanitary and phytosanitary import clearances for round scad (galunggong), mackerel, and various other species, effective immediately. According to a department circular dated Dec. 13, the suspension also applies to the issuance of import documents for bonito, moonfish, pompano, and tuna by-products.
- Rice and fishChanco, Boo (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2022-11-16)There was this story of a school girl whose baon every school day was a cup of rice sprinkled with patis or fish sauce. That was all her parents could afford, the story on social media said. The basic Filipino diet is rice and fish. Fish and fish products provide the bulk of protein for more than half of all Filipinos when they eat. Galunggong or scad was the poor man’s fish when I was growing up. But today, the poor can no longer afford galunggong. It is now imported.
- Galunggong' prices to go down amid supply hikeOcampo, Karl R. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc., 2021-02-04)Expect the price of mackerel scad, more popularly known as galunggong, to go down in Metro Manila in the coming weeks due to a projected hike in supply after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources opened fishing in Palawan.
- Fishing ban imposed in BatangasOzaeta, Arnell (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2016-11-20)Local government units in coordination with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and environment and natural resources office has implemented a 22-day ban on commercial fishing in Balayan Bay. The fishing ban, which started yesterday, will allow galunggong (round scad) and matambaka (big-eyed scad) to spawn and replenish. The coastal municipalities of Tingloy, Mabini, Bauan, San Luis, Taal, Lemery, Calaca, Balayan, Calatagan, Lian and Nasugbu initiated the fishing ban.
- Gov’t to ban galunggong fishing in Palawan(BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation, 2013-04-24)Fishing of galunggong (round scad) in northern Palawan will be temporarily banned in the meantime that the government carries out a study on the species’ spawning period. In a statement, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) yesterday said: “the government is looking at Northern Palawan as the area of study where closed season for galunggong will be implemented either in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of 2014.” BFAR Director Asis G. Perez, in the statement, said declaring a closed season for sardines to let the species spawn had been very effective, and a similar measure would work for galunggong -- known as “poor man’s fish” -- whose price has risen due to falling catch.
- Profiteers blamed for pricey fishGomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times Publishing Corporation, 2019-01-23)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has blamed profiteers and middlemen for the high prices of fish in the market. BFAR National Director Eduardo Gongona said the country had a “steady” supply of fish. “Our imported galunggong (round scad) has arrived in our fishing ports and bulk of these were already distributed to various markets. So why are prices still high? It’s mainly because of the middlemen or the in-between,” Gongona said.
- Galunggong imports to arrive ahead of closed fishing seasonMogato, Anna Gabriela A. (BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation, 2018-08-16)The Department of Agriculture (DA) has allowed the entry of up to 17,000 metric tons (MT) of round scad, commonly known as galunggong, which will reach markets ahead of the closed fishing season when supply of the fish is expected to dwindle. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol signed the Certificate of Necessity enabling the import of round scad on Wednesday. The timing of the permit will allow imports to arrive by Sept. 1. On Friday, the DA and the fisheries industry agreed to set a tariff rate of 5% for such imports.
- Fish output slightly down to 972,910 MT in Q3 – PSAGomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times Publishing Corporation, 2018-11-19)The country's fish production slightly decreased in the third quarter of the year as output from commercial and municipal fisheries declined, the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) said. In its latest Fisheries Situation Report, the agency said total fish output stood at 972, 910 metric tons (MT)in the July-September period, just 0.4 percent lower from a year-ago level. Fish yielded by commercial fisheries dropped by 1.60 percent to 232, 810 MT from 236, 590 MT incurred in the same period last year.
- Importing galunggong will disadvantage 1.5M fisherfolk'(Panay News, Inc., 2018-09-01)The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) plan to import round scad, or galunggong every year will disadvantage some one and a half million small fisherfolk in the country, Sen. Cynthia Villar said. Villar, who chairs the Senate committee on agriculture and food, said imported galunggong will compete against the locally produced fish variety. “Kasi kapag nag-iimport tayo that is competition to our one and a half million fisherfolk in the municipal water na mahihirap,” she said on the sidelines of the 14th Agriculture and Fisheries Technology Forum in Mandaluyong City.