The Atimonan Coastal Food Production Association (ACFPA), with the help of Atimonan One Energy Inc. (A1E), is not letting the bad news of increasing Covid19 cases, affect its fledgling Spanish sardines business.
The group recently set its sights on coming up with new, tastier and safer products from the seaside community. With the help of A1E, a subsidiary of Meralco PowerGen Corp., which is building 1,200megawatt (MW), highly efficient, low emission (HELE) coal plant in the area, local merchants underwent a fish processing training program.
The activity, focused on helping the ACFPA upgrade their products, was led by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 4A and the Office of Municipal Agriculture (OMA).
Participants learned various methods offish processing to produce other products, including bagoong, milkfish in oil, gourmet tuyo and tinapa, deboned bangus and fish patty.
“We want to provide livelihood intervention and capability building to sustain the food supply chain in the agrifishery sector,” explained Marilou B. Mosqueda, BFAR aquaculturist.