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Sunday, June 07, 2009 |
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SPECIAL
REPORT: RP TUNA
INDUSTRY
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Dwindling stocks, rising demand bedeviltuna fishing |
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By Paul M. Icamina, Special Reports Editor
TORIL: The Davao Fish Port Complex (DFPC) here, the country’s only
transshipment point for tuna exports, has always been in the red.
Except for last year, when spiraling fuel prices
slowed down fishing and recession dampened demand.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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CATCHING multi-million-dollar auction markets
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DAVAO CITY: Unload the chilled tuna, pack in carton boxes, put in
refrigerated container vans, whisk to the international airport and
from there to Manila, then fly them to Tokyo in time for the
multimillion-dollar auction markets in Japan early the next morning.
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Tuna transshipment: a new business opportunity
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TORIL, Davao City: Transshipment is a relatively new phenomenon and
Davao is the only place in the country where a fishery product may
pass through without paying taxes on its way to auction destinations
in Japan, Canada and the United States.
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Pirates of the Pacific sail through the ‘donut holes’
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ILLEGAL, unreported and unregulated fishing are pervasive in the
high seas.
Unreported transshipments continue particularly
in pockets known as the donut holes.
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World tuna stocks: falling, falling, falling
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SEVERAL tuna fisheries have collapsed and others are in steep
decline as overfishing continues and world tuna stocks fall.
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Alarmingly, a record catch
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A RECORD catch of tuna was reported in the Western and Central
Pacific in 2007.
Alarmingly, the increase comes against a
backdrop of equally alarming global...
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