Beginning this year, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will focus on developing the country’s aquaculture and mariculture by up to 60 percent to attain the total fish-sufficiency target of the government.

In an interview with The Manila Times on Monday, BFAR Director Eduardo Gongona said the agency will exert all administrative efforts to scale up fish production in aquaculture which would also make the country at 2 percent surplus by 2022.

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