Fish prices to ease as more imports allowed

Fish prices are expected to ease in the coming months after the government extended the deadline and expanded the list of fish products allowed to be imported, an industry group said.

- By JASPER EMMANUEL ARCALAS

The Fisheries and Aquaculture Board (FAB) said the Department of Agriculture's (DA) latest amendment to the ongoing fish importation added more "low-priced" fish that are allowed to be brought into the country.

Some of the new fish species allowed to be imported are horse mackerel, Indian mackerel, black tiger shrimp, freshwater shrimp, among others, based on the DA's Memorandum Order (MO) 33.

"This new MO adds some additional low-value fish and some other local fish whose prices have shot up tremendously in the market," FAB chair Chingling Tanco told The STAR.