Abstract
Abstract Aquaculture industry has grown globally to fill in the shortage of fish supply from the sea. A study of aquaculture industries in ICRMP sites of Central Visayas was conducted to determine the socio-cultural and economic aspects of aquaculture. Results revealed that 79% of aquaculture systems are in freshwater and brackish ponds with 50% Oreochromis niloticus and 43% Chanos chanos as common cultured species. Ponds are operated by private individuals and conform to the standard culture systems of cultured species. The individuals that were employed in aquaculture industries are those that are living near the aquaculture sites which are mostly hired as caretakers and helpers and basically non-permanent and on-call basis. In spite of their employment in the aquaculture industries, communities near aquaculture sites are considered poor since majority of households are living below the poverty thresholds. There is a periodicity of consumption of aquaculture products in the community. The frequency of consumption is high during harvest time (50%) which usually happens every 3-4 months only, thus creating high demand in the community.
Highlights
Global aquaculture has tremendously grown to support the need to fill up the gap between wildseafood supply and seafood demand (Chu et al, 2010)
Most privately owned aquaculture systems have no defined payment systems. This is evident from the results of the survey and FGD with key informants (Table 1) wherein majority has no record to show an in-placed system of collection initiated by Local Government Unit (LGU) except for Dumanjug and Carmen, in which there is regular payment of their annual dues and business tax
Local Government Unit (LGU) is evident for some areas (29%), majority has no record of any registration especially in the case of Siquijor wherein 100% of the Aquaculture farms have no record of registration or any other dues paid to the LGU
Summary
Global aquaculture has tremendously grown to support the need to fill up the gap between wildseafood supply and seafood demand (Chu et al, 2010). World’s fish landings have grown very slowly at an annual average of 3.4% due to indiscriminate fishing and fisheries habitat degradation and destruction. Aquaculture production has expanded and has steadily increased by 15% (Chong, 1994). Since 1990s, aquaculture expanded rapidly in the Asia-Pacific in terms of area and number of people engaged in the sector. Aquaculture has been a source of livelihood, food supply and employment for the poor (Sekhar and Ortiz, 2014). To meet future global demand for seafood, it is estimated that aquaculture production will need to grow 70to 90 million tonnes by 2030 (FAO, 2010 as cited by Rubio, et al, 2010)
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