Implications for microenterprise development, efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability
1999
Pabuayon, I.M. | Musa, D.M. | Espanto, L.H. (Philippines Univ. Los Banos, College, Laguna (Philippines). Coll. of Economics and Management)
To determine how the Philippine fishery sector was affected by changing market organization trends such as diversification, integration, and associated linkages and arrangements in the input and output markets, the market structure-conduct-performance (SCP) framework was adopted in the study. The study used both primary and secondary information. Primary data were gathered from the survey of firms namely: processors/exporters (23), traders (14), fishermen/fish farmers (22) and feed miller (1), while secondary data were collected from various sources like fishery-related government agencies and other published materials. The following were revealed in the study. The presence of high degree of product diversification in the fishery sector; the market diversification was evident among the firms selling both the domestic and foreign markets; 55% of the SEC-sampled firms were fully and vertically-integrated, from fishing or fish farming to processing up to domestic trading and exporting, the processing sub-sector (fresh/chilled/frozen tuna and prawn), although the surveyed firms realized profits in 1996, when export was higher, long term sustainability of the industry must be assured of; the fishery sector showed high employment potential with estimated 1,829,858 people directly employed in raw material and processing stages of production, and on the average, firms operated below full-capacity with capacity utilization of 62-84%. Four environmentally-related problems were identified such as "ice-ice" disease in seaweed, luminous bacteria in prawn farming, water pollution, and air pollution
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